Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases

Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases

Andrew Thompson
$12.95
Publication Date: March 28th, 2017
Publisher:
Ulysses Press
ISBN:
9781612436685
Pages:
280

Description

Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious phrases in this fascinating trivia book from bestselling author Andrew Thompson.

English is filled with curious, intriguing and bizarre phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 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.

About the Author

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.