Hair Of The Dog To Paint The Town Red
The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases
by Andrew Thompson
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Pages:
280
Published:
Oct 2025
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Ulysses Press
ISBN:
9781612439648
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.
* 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.
$40.00
