Description

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sometimes referred to simply as Brewer’s, is a reference work containing definitions and explanations of many famous phrases, allusions, and figures, whether historical or mythical. 

This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.