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Hair Of The Dog to Paint the Town Red The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases

9781612436685

Hair Of The Dog to Paint the Town Red The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases

  • ISBN 13:

    9781612436685

  • ISBN 10:

    1612436684

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 03/14/2017
  • Publisher: Ulysses Press
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Summary

Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious phrases in this fascinating trivia book from bestselling author Andrew Thompson.

English is filled with curious, intriguing and bizarre phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 of them, including:

• Read between the Lines
• Cat Got Your Tongue?
• Put a Sock in It
• Close, but No Cigar
• Bring Home the Bacon
• Caught Red-Handed
• Under the Weather
• Raining Cats and Dogs


Perfect for trivia and language lovers alike, this entertaining collection is the ultimate guide to understanding these baffling mini mysteries of the English language.

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