Hog On Ice & Other Curious Expressions

Funk, Charles Earle

ISBN 10: 0060912596 / ISBN 13: 9780060912598

Verlag: Harper Paperbacks, 1985

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. Some wear from use. Good used book.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1173959

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Hog On Ice & Other Curious Expressions
• Verlag: Harper Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1985
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0060912596
• ISBN-13: 9780060912598
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A
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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.

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Dr. Funk has taken hundreds of picturesque sayings that we use without thinking in our daily speech and has traced them back through the years to find the original allusions.