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Synopsis
A collection of animal expressions offers a look at the stories behind more than one thousand "beastly" words and phrases that enhance and enliven contemporary English usage
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Jiminy cricket! Bookworms of all stripes will have a whale of a time wolfing down these short essays examining 1,200 animal-related expressions. Christine Ammer must have worked like a busy little bee hunting down derivations; while some of her toil resulted in wild goose chases ("why a mixed drink [cocktail] should resemble a rooster's hind feathers is anyone's guess"), any linguistic night owl is sure to take to the lion's share of this book like a duck to water. It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. And Cathy Bobak's illustrations are just the cat's meow. --Jane Steinberg
About the Author
Christine Ammer is a lifelong student of language. She is the author of 20 popular reference books, on subjects ranging from classical music to economics. For the past decade she has concentrated on language, especially colloquial expressions. She lives and looks into words in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0395957303
- ISBN 13 9780395957301
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages266
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