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Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red

9781612439648

Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red

  • ISBN 13:

    9781612439648

  • ISBN 10:

    1612439640

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 10/28/2025
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Summary

English is filled with curious, intriguing, and bizarre phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating, and even hilarious origins behind four hundred 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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