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The Metaphor Zoo (Why the English Language Loves Animals)
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Product Details
Author:
Jeremy Butterfield
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
384
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications (January 11, 2027)
Imprint:
Oneworld Publications
Release Date:
January 11, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781836432432
ISBN-10:
1836432437
Weight:
17.22oz
Dimensions:
5.31" x 8.5"
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_07302026_P10416224_onix30-20260730.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$28.95
Pub Discount:
65
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$22.29
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P-SS
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A
Overview
Ever wondered why it rains cats and dogs? Why some are early birds and others night owls? Or why on earth a cat would wear pyjamas?
'Charming, scholarly, boisterously playful, thoroughly engaging.' Benjamin Dreyer, bestselling author of Dreyer's English
English is home to a veritable menagerie of animal metaphors, similes, sayings, adages proverbs, idioms and rhymes, ranging from the commonsense to the utterly absurd. From curious cats to mindless sheeple, lexicographer Jeremy Butterfield takes a species-by-species safari through the English language in pursuit of its most unusual animal idioms.
Learn how coots – perfectly nice little birds – become synonymous with madness, baldness and idiocy. Figure out if bees actually have knees, and if so, why they’re so great. And discover why pigs ‘oink’ in English, ‘khankhanah’ in Arabic, ‘heng heng’ in Mandarin – but cats always mew. Filled to the brim with fascinating facts and trivia, The Metaphor Zoo is the perfect gift for language lovers, amateur linguists and grammar nerds alike.
***
'You’ll savour every fauna-fuelled page... enchanting.' Vanessa Feltz
'Joyous, fascinating and utterly delightful.' Stephen Moss, author of The Accidental Countryside
'The English language is crawling, hopping, slithering and soaring with animal words. The Metaphor Zoo lets them all run wild, to glorious effect.' Sally Coulthard, author of A Short History of the World According to Sheep
'Charming, scholarly, boisterously playful, thoroughly engaging.' Benjamin Dreyer, bestselling author of Dreyer's English
English is home to a veritable menagerie of animal metaphors, similes, sayings, adages proverbs, idioms and rhymes, ranging from the commonsense to the utterly absurd. From curious cats to mindless sheeple, lexicographer Jeremy Butterfield takes a species-by-species safari through the English language in pursuit of its most unusual animal idioms.
Learn how coots – perfectly nice little birds – become synonymous with madness, baldness and idiocy. Figure out if bees actually have knees, and if so, why they’re so great. And discover why pigs ‘oink’ in English, ‘khankhanah’ in Arabic, ‘heng heng’ in Mandarin – but cats always mew. Filled to the brim with fascinating facts and trivia, The Metaphor Zoo is the perfect gift for language lovers, amateur linguists and grammar nerds alike.
***
'You’ll savour every fauna-fuelled page... enchanting.' Vanessa Feltz
'Joyous, fascinating and utterly delightful.' Stephen Moss, author of The Accidental Countryside
'The English language is crawling, hopping, slithering and soaring with animal words. The Metaphor Zoo lets them all run wild, to glorious effect.' Sally Coulthard, author of A Short History of the World According to Sheep
