Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable, edited by Adrian Room, was first published in 2000. A second edition, edited by Ian Crofton and John Ayto, was published on 30 November 2010. While this title is based on the structure of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, it contains entries from 1900 onwards and exists alongside its parent volume as a separate work.
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