The illustrated histories of everyday expressions discover the true stories behind the English language's 64 most popular idioms
"With over 100 illustrations, The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions gets to the bottom of the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origin stories behind the English language's most popular sayings! Including: Jump the shark; Kick the bucket; Close but no cigar; Bring home the ba...
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New York City :
Whalen Book Works,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The illustrated histories of everyday expressions : |b discover the true stories behind the English language's 64 most popular idioms / |c by James McGuire ; illustrated by Alex Kalomeris. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York City : |b Whalen Book Works, |c [2019] | |
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| 300 | |a 139 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 21 cm | ||
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| 520 | |a "With over 100 illustrations, The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions gets to the bottom of the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origin stories behind the English language's most popular sayings! Including: Jump the shark; Kick the bucket; Close but no cigar; Bring home the bacon; Cost an arm and a leg; Let them eat cake; Raining cats and dogs; and many, many more! Read up on these fascinating idioms and you'll be the cat's pajamas!"--Page 4 of cover. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |x Spoken English |v Terms and phrases. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |x Idioms. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Figures of speech. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Kalomeris, Alex, |e illustrator. | |
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