A Hog On Ice & Other Curious Expressions

Funk, Charles Earle

ISBN 10: 0060513292 / ISBN 13: 9780060513290

Verlag: Quill / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001

Beschreibung

Very light shelf wear to edges and corners of cover and spine. Binding remains tight and pages are clean and unbent.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 715523

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Hog On Ice & Other Curious Expressions
• Verlag: Quill / HarperCollinsPublishers
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0060513292
• ISBN-13: 9780060513290
• Einband: Trade Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Buchtyp: Used Book

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Inhaltsangabe

From “mad as a wet hen” to “corn dodger” and “hobgoblin,” Charles Funk’s collections of curious words and expressions are a treasure trove of word origin.

Where did expressions like this come from anyway?

Now finally we’ll know what “letting the cat out of the bag” or “going on wild-goose chase” refers to. In this fun collection of over 400 curious expressions and sayings, Dr. Funk explains the meanings that we use in everyday speech without even thinking about it. He has traced them back through the years-in some cases centuries-in an effort to determine their sources, to find out what the original allusions were, or, at the very least, to give us his expert opinion when facts cannot be traced.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles Earle Funk was editor in chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series. He wrote several other books on word and phrase origins, including Horsefeathers, Heavens to Betsy!, and Thereby Hangs a Tale.