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Dictionary of word and phrase origins / Nigel Rees.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Cassell, 1994Description: 224pISBN:
  • 9780304344222 pbk
  • 9780304344222 pbk
Uniform titles:
  • Cassell dictionary of word and phrase origins
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 423.1
Summary: Why do we say a person is the "spitting image" of someone else, or "take a rain check"? These questions are rarely answered by conventional dictionaries, but this book takes a wide-ranging approach to problems of etymology, challenging a few long-held theories on the way.
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Why do we say a person is the "spitting image" of someone else, or "take a rain check"? These questions are rarely answered by conventional dictionaries, but this book takes a wide-ranging approach to problems of etymology, challenging a few long-held theories on the way.

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