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    <title>Figures of speech</title>
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    <namePart>Peake, Mervyn Laurence</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1911-1968</namePart>
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    <publisher>Candlewick Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1954</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2003</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st U.S. ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Uses cartoon-like drawings to represent such sayings as "Burning their bridges," "Sitting pretty," "To cut a long story short," and "I could just kick myself."</abstract>
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    <topic>Riddles</topic>
    <topic>Caricatures and cartoons</topic>
    <topic>Juvenile literature</topic>
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    <topic>English wit and humor, Pictorial</topic>
    <topic>Juvenile literature</topic>
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    <topic>Wit and humor</topic>
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    <topic>Cartoons and comics</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">0763621765 (alk. paper)</identifier>
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