[Lexicog] Phrasefinder

[Grant Barrett]

The quality of the scholarship at Phrases.org.uk is so variable that  
confirming an answer given there is an exercise in just going ahead  
and doing the research yourself.

The site is interesting in that it occasionally touches upon  
expressions not well-covered elsewhere but by and large, outside the  
scant 1200 entries that are provided by the site, the content is  
almost exclusively made up of a forum where the clueless answer  
questions asked by the clueless.

One is far more likely to find a satisfactory answer by searching  
Google Books or Amazon's full-text search. Or better, visiting a  
library.

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
113 Park Place, Apt. 3
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(646) 286-2260

>
> Every once in a while we get an inquiry on this list about the  
> meaning of
> some phrase or idiom, which engenders a particularistic reply (or  
> multiple
> replies). I have been impressed with the judicious and historically
> interesting work of Gary Martin, whose Phrasefinder online source is  
> very
> impressive. Unless others have other opinions about this source, I'd  
> like
> to suggest that we simply routinely refer basic inquiries to this  
> site:
>
>     http://www.phrases.org.uk/


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