I've found the Merriam-Webster site useful when I need to look up a word:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
"a fortiori" is there, too!
- Eric
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Hello Bob and All --
I think SOME long phrases are discussed in The Browser's Dictionary, by
John Ciardi. I don't know if it is still in print, but it is authoritative
and fascinating. (Perhaps not a lot of statistical terms and phrases,
though...)
-- Chris
Chris Olsen
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> Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 11:44 AM
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> Subject: a fortiori
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> ----- Forwarded message from Donald Burrill -----
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> > Also, as another chance to display my ignorance, I couldn't find "a
> > fortiori" in my dictionary.
>
> Try RHD, between "aforetime" and "afoul", not between "a" and "AA".
> It will surely be in OED as well.
>
> ----- End of forwarded message from Donald Burrill -----
>
> There are entire dictionaries devoted to this sort of thing. I have
> _Dictionary of Foreign Terms_, which I think was first published in
> 1934 and issued in paperback in 1961. I bought the latter (for
> ninety-five cents) when I was an undergraduate. There is another such
> reference currently on sale from OUP.
>
> Now, does anyone know of a reference where one could look up phrases?
> For example, "like a chicken with its head cut off". Very short
> phrases are sometimes in dictionaries under the main word ("battle
> fatigue" might be under either word) but longer phrases are generally
> not. Certain ones are in collections of quotations, but probably not
> this one. (I grew up in a rural setting and think most people would
> want much detail on this example.)
>
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