Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack

Red Herrings and White Elephants

Albert Jack

288 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative fast-paced
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Bold as brass, cold feet, cock and bull, off the cuff, red herrings and white elephants. We use these phrases every day and yet have only the vaguest idea of where many of them come from. The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in ...

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