Same comment as the prior reader regarding the data diskette and the publisher support. I tried to contact the authors at Harvard University, but they are apparently no longer there...

Book is built around a data diskette which, according to the book, on pg xxiv, in the section titled "To the Student" it states : "If your instructor does not provide you with the disk, it can be obtained from .... by calling or...FAX...". Publisher (currently Thomson) will not supply data diskette making book almost useless. Too many better books to list. Don't be disappointed, buy a different book.

This volume fails to reflect the cliche: "You get what you pay for".

Despite the description:

"...this new addition to Barron's "Pocket Guides" series takes on the subject of cliches--their origins, meanings, examples used within the context of a sentence, and in many cases, the regions where the idiom is used most often."

and the words on the cover of the guide regarding the origions of cliches, I was unable to find a single origion in the guide.

It is a very lean publication with generous white space. I returned it for a full refund.

This is a pretty worthless collection of common knowledge. The time spent reading this book could just as easily be spent surfing the web. The latter method would not only save you the cash, but likely yield better results.