Common Phrases: and the Amazing Stories Behind Them - Max Cryer - Libros - Skyhorse Publishing - 9781620875810 - 4 de junio de 2013
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In day-to-day speech, we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from. Max Cryer changes all that by showing how fascinating the English language really is.

Did you know that the former host of Today, Jane Pauley, claims to have coined the term ?bad hair day,? or that a CBS engineer named Charley Douglass invented the name and use of ?canned laughter? for television, or that ?cold turkey? as a term for quitting something immediately was popularized by the novel and movie (starring Frank Sinatra) The Man with the Golden Arm? Here you?ll learn the origins of phrases like:

• Credibility gap
• Ginormous
• Metrosexual
• The Mile High Club
• My lips are sealed
• The opera?s not over until the fat lady sings
• Supermarket
• Supermodel
• There?s no accounting for taste
• Thick as thieves
• And hundreds more!

For anyone who loves language, this book will ?take the cake.?

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 4 de junio de 2013
ISBN13 9781620875810
Editores Skyhorse Publishing
Páginas 320
Dimensiones 140 × 208 × 23 mm   ·   317 g
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