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Common Phrases (And the Amazing Stories Behind Them) - 9781620875810
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Product Details
Author:
Max Cryer
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
320
Publisher:
Skyhorse (June 4, 2013)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781620875810
ISBN-10:
1620875810
Weight:
11.5oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.25" x 5.5"
Case Pack:
30
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_04022026_P9912986_onix30_Complete-20260402.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$14.95
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$11.51
Publisher Identifier:
P-SS
Discount Code:
A
Audience:
General/trade
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Skyhorse
Overview
In day-to-day speech, we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from. Max Cryer changes all that by showing how fascinating the English language really is.
Did you know that the former host of Today, Jane Pauley, claims to have coined the term “bad hair day,” or that a CBS engineer named Charley Douglass invented the name and use of “canned laughter” for television, or that “cold turkey” as a term for quitting something immediately was popularized by the novel and movie (starring Frank Sinatra) The Man with the Golden Arm? Here you’ll learn the origins of phrases like:
• Credibility gap
• Ginormous
• Metrosexual
• The Mile High Club
• My lips are sealed
• The opera’s not over until the fat lady sings
• Supermarket
• Supermodel
• There’s no accounting for taste
• Thick as thieves
• And hundreds more!
For anyone who loves language, this book will “take the cake.”
Did you know that the former host of Today, Jane Pauley, claims to have coined the term “bad hair day,” or that a CBS engineer named Charley Douglass invented the name and use of “canned laughter” for television, or that “cold turkey” as a term for quitting something immediately was popularized by the novel and movie (starring Frank Sinatra) The Man with the Golden Arm? Here you’ll learn the origins of phrases like:
• Credibility gap
• Ginormous
• Metrosexual
• The Mile High Club
• My lips are sealed
• The opera’s not over until the fat lady sings
• Supermarket
• Supermodel
• There’s no accounting for taste
• Thick as thieves
• And hundreds more!
For anyone who loves language, this book will “take the cake.”
