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| Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep: The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day (Penguin Pockets) | 
 enlarge | Author: Albert Jack
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 79301
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 4.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0141024259
EAN: 9780141024257
ASIN: 0141024259
Publication Date: October 5, 2006
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 Not Quite as good as Red herrings & White Elephants but good November 16, 2008
All the most known phases, Red Herrings & White Elephants is the one to choose. However if you want more, then this book contains more but they are more obscure (less well known). Good though.
 A FANTASTIC FOLLOW-UP September 21, 2005
45 out of 48 found this review helpful
RED HERRINGS was my favourite book of last year and now (just as my friends were breathing a sigh of relief that I had stopped dragging every conversation round to the weird and wonderful origins of the words we use every day) here comes the sequel and it's even better. Did you know, for instance, that 'buttering someone up' comes from the ancient Hindu custom of throwing globs of clarified butter at the statues of gods; that 'nailing your colours to the mast' came from captains, thinking that they were unlikely to win a sea battle, nailing their flag to the mast so their more cowardly crew couldn't winch it down and surrender; that saying something has 'got legs' comes from wine tasting -- and there's hundreds more stories where those came from... I can't imagine anyone not loving this book.
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