Why You Say It: The Fascinating Stories Behind over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases - Softcover

Garrison, Webb

 
9781595552990: Why You Say It: The Fascinating Stories Behind over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1595552995 ISBN 13: 9781595552990
Verlag: Thomas Nelson, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Are you more likely .. .

to take the bull by the horns or beat around the bush? Don’t let anyone call you on the carpet for failing to put your best foot forward. That would be a bitter pill to swallow. In the long run, it’s easier to just bite the bullet and get your ducks in a row. After all, nobody likes the taste of humble pie.

You’ve likely uttered at least one of these adages within the last week, but have you ever stopped to consider where such conversational staples originated? Why You Say It reveals the backstory of more than six hundred words and phrases that pepper our everyday dialogue. This catalog of our language’s most colorful expressions delivers an illuminating read for anyone curious about the evolution of words.

 

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Verlag
Thomas Nelson
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1595552995
ISBN 13 
9781595552990
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Anzahl der Seiten
368
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