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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781612439648
Publication Date: 10/28/2025
Edition Description: Special Edition
Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious phrases in this fascinating trivia book from best-selling author Andrew Thompson.
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.
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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