Phrase search

Proximity search

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Results display

Just as with the Find Word facility, where you could enter a word, phrase, or pattern with wildcards, so you may also search anywhere in the different text areas or in the whole Dictionary text for occurrences of a phrase which interests you.

So to find variations on phrases such as mad as a hatter or mad as a March hare, type 'mad as a' in the first search box, using 'full text' as the selected area, to see how inventively this formula has been used.

As usual, the results list appears,

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from which you may select the phrase that interests you, and jump directly to the match-point in the entry to see it in context.

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Proximity search

step 16 of 37

Results display