Endangered Phrases: Intriguing Idioms Dangerously Close to Extinction by Steven D. Price

Endangered Phrases: Intriguing Idioms Dangerously Close to Extinction

Steven D. Price

224 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history funny reflective medium-paced
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"Person to person" (and "station to station"), "bar sinister," "the weed of crime bears bitter fruit," "between the devil and the deep blue sea," "will o' the wisp," "poor as Job's turkey" . . . these are just a few phrases that were once part of ...

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