Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases

anything-to Arnold Author Barham Besant Blackmore Blackwood's Magazine called cause Daily Telegraph dead dear devil Dickens Edgeworth Edinburgh Review Eliot English favour fellow Fortnightly Review G. A. Sala George George Eliot girl give Goldsmith H. R. Haggard Haliburton hand head heart heels Henry Wood honour horse Hughes James Payn John keep king Lady Latin laugh living London look Lord Macaulay married Marryat matter mean Miss Austen Mistletoe Bough Murray's Magazine never novelist off-to one-to one's out-to person person-to play poet poor pretty quarrel R. H. Dana R. L. Stevenson Reade refuse Rhoda Broughton round Sarah Tytler Shakspeare speak stand talk tell Thackeray thing thought throw tion Titmouse to-to took Trollope turn up-to wife wind with-to woman word young