In this fun collection of over 400 curious expressions and sayings, Dr. Funk explains the meanings that people use in everyday speech without even thinking about it. He has traced the expressions back through the years in an effort to determine their sources, to find out what the original allusions were, and give his expert opinion when facts cannot be traced.
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In this fun collection of over 400 curious expressions and sayings, Dr. Funk explains the meanings that people use in everyday speech without even thinking about it. He has traced the expressions back through the years in an effort to determine their sources, to find out what the original allusions were, and give his expert opinion when facts cannot be traced.
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Tom Funk. Good. Book Octavo, softcover, good in gray pictorial wraps. 214 pages including index. Author has set down with humor and scholarship the best and most plausible explanations he could pry out of past records and living persons.
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Good+ Book The origin and development of the pungent and colorful phrases we all use. Over 400 curious expressions and sayings that, without thought, we use in our daily speech. Softcover, 214 pp., illustrations by Tom Funk. Slightly edge worn covers, text is age-toned otherwise unmarked, tight binding. Better-than average reading/reference copy.
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