walking encyclopaedia
walking encyclopedia

From their view I'm a walking encyclopaedia of official secrets.

I'm afraid I'm not a walking encyclopaedia of medical statistics.

They were walking encyclopaedias when it came to night landings and jungle routes.

Billy Pinnell was a walking encyclopaedia on the game.

He was a keen cyclist, and he was described by his friends as "a walking encyclopaedia of medicine".

Bickerstaff did not thrive at school but became fascinated with sports and became a walking encyclopaedia of sporting general knowledge.

There shouldn't be too much of a problem identifying her -Charley Rowley seemed to be a walking encyclopaedia on the place.

Fothergill is a walking encyclopaedia of natural history; it's like being escorted by, well, David Attenborough.

Popularly known as the walking encyclopaedia of Jammu and Kashmir, he had the history of all important events at his fingertips.

Her second in command, Lieutenant Colonel John Hounsell, was a walking encyclopaedia of Army rules and regulations.

Benny Evans, under-valuer whom despite his unkempt appearance was hired mainly because he is a "walking encyclopaedia on the Old Masters"

What might Nigidius Figulus have made of it, that walking encyclopaedia of ancient Etruscan augural phenomena?

They must be very tiresome to people who know all about it," said Jenny, regarding him with an expression of deep respect for she considered him a sort of walking encyclopaedia of universal knowledge.

He had gleaned the bulk of his knowledge from old lags and screws who wanted to talk the hours away, and by degrees he had turned himself into a walking encyclopaedia on crime and punishment.

Domnick Fernandes from Bamonvaddo, who returns to native Siolim on and off after retiring as a librarian of St Xavier's College, Bombay, is virtually a walking encyclopaedia.

Erudite, knowledgeable in all major European languages and some Eastern ones, a friend of Guillaume Apollinaire, called by foreigners "a walking encyclopaedia", Konica became the model of Western intellectual for the Albanian culture.

It is a fine thing to be a walking encyclopaedia of philosophy, but if you happen to have no liking for philosophy, and to have a like for the natural history of street-cries, much better leave philosophy alone, and take to street-cries.

He became an avid player and follower of cricket while at school and into adulthood: in his later life he was known as "a walking encyclopaedia of cricket knowledge", eventually owning all but one edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.