2107 Curious Word Origins, sayings & expressions from white elephants to a song & dance /
by Funk, Charles Earle
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy in near fine(-) DJ with very light edgewear mostly to top edge; o/w DJ is clean and free of tears and major shelfwear;/very good +
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About This Item
New York: Galahad Books, 1993. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine(-) DJ with very light edgewear mostly to top edge; o/w DJ is clean and free of tears and major shelfwear; board are clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; edges of pages are clean; binding is tight and square./very good +. Octavo in dark blue boards with gilt titles to spine and off white paper in tan-brown dust jacket; illus.; 988 pp., 24 cm. In English. || Abstract: This volume contains entertaining trivia about clichés, word origins, historic events, classical literature, and frontier humor used in the English language. It reveals the sometimes surprising, often amusing, and always fascinating roots of more than 2,000 vernacular words and expressions. From "kangaroo court" to "one-horse town", from "face the music" to "hocus-pocus," it tells the stories of hundreds of these sayings and the circumstances that brought them into our everyday speech.
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- Bibliope by Calvello Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85268
- Title
- 2107 Curious Word Origins, sayings & expressions from white elephants to a song & dance /
- Author
- Funk, Charles Earle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in near fine(-) DJ with very light edgewear mostly to top edge; o/w DJ is clean and free of tears and major shelfwear;
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Galahad Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- English language, Terms and phrases, Etymology
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- Language;
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