Andrew Thompson

Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious phrases in this fascinating trivia book from best-selling author Andrew Thompson. English is filled with curious, intriguing, and bizarre phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating, and even hilarious origins behind four hundred of them, including:

• Read Between the Lines • Cat Got Your Tongue? • Put a Sock in It • Close, but No Cigar • Bring Home the Bacon • Caught Red-Handed • Under the Weather • Raining Cats and Dogs

Perfect for trivia and language lovers alike, this entertaining collection is the ultimate guide to understanding these baffling mini mysteries of the English language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781646042098
• Artikelnr.: 73234607

Autorenporträt

Andrew Thompson practices law but his obsession with finding out the truth about aspects of the world that we take for granted has led him to accumulate a vast body of knowledge that he has at last distilled into book form.