A Hog On Ice: And Other Curious Expressions

Funk, Charles Earle; Charles Earle Funk

ISBN 10: 0446669113 / ISBN 13: 9780446669115

Edité par Paperback Library, New York, 1972

A propos de cet article

239 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean text and crisp pages. Light foxing on edges of pages.

N° de réf. du vendeur 2iiiAb0044b

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Hog On Ice: And Other Curious Expressions
• Éditeur: Paperback Library, New York
• Date de parution: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0446669113
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780446669115
• Reliure: Mass Market Paperback
• Illustrateur: Tom Funk (Drawings)
• Édition: 1st Printing September 1972
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Reference Books
  • Language Studies, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech
  • Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm

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Synopsis

Book by Charles Earle Funk

Présentation de l'éditeur

He's as independent as a hog on ice!

Where did expressions like this come from anyway?

Now finally we'll know what "letting the cat out of the bag" or "going on a wild-goose chase" refers to. In this fun collection of more than 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.