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New York, NY,, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. Tom Funk. Octavo, softcover, near fine in yellow and blue pictorial wraps. 214 pages including index. Author has set down with humor and scholarship the best and most plausible explanations he could pry out of past records and living persons.
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A Hog on Ice: & Other Curious Expressions Tapa blanda - 2002
de Charles E. Funk
In this fun collection of over 400 curious expressions and sayings, Dr. Funk explains the meanings that people use in everyday speech without even thinking about it. He has traced the expressions back through the years in an effort to determine their sources, to find out what the original allusions were, and give his expert opinion when facts cannot be traced.
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It would be interesting if, through family records, I could bring an unsuspected source into view which would explain why this ex means "in a state of dire panic" or from another record determine why a stooge for an auctioneer, one who makes fictitious bids to stimulate higher bids, is called a "Peter Funk"; but, alas, no such records are known.
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He's as independent as a hog on ice!
Where did expressions like this come from anyway?
Now finally we'll know what "letting the cat out of the bag" or "going on a wild-goose chase" refers to. In this fun collection of more than 400 curious expressions and sayings, Dr. Funk explains the meanings that we use in everyday speech without even thinking about it. He has traced them back through the years -- in some cases centuries -- in an effort to determine their sources, to find out what the original allusions were, or at the very least, to give us his expert opinion when facts cannot be traced.
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- Título A Hog on Ice: & Other Curious Expressions
- Autor Charles E. Funk
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición 1st Printing
- Páginas 224
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial William Morrow & Company, New York, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2002-10-01
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780060513290 / 0060513292
- Peso 0.39 libras (0.18 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.02 x 5.4 x 0.57 pulgadas (20.37 x 13.72 x 1.45 cm)
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 84048646
- Dewey Decimal Code 428.1
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