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Cleopatra's Nose: The Twinkie Defense, and 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance by Jerome Agel, Walter D. Glanze

psalmcat's review

4.0

Quite fun, but WAY overdue. The entries are arranged in reverse chronological order, working back from the publication date. I only made it to the 18th century. Oh, well, I missed Cleopatra's nose!