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ISBN/UID: 9780313264269
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Greenwood
Publication date: 24 March 1989
Description
provide s] informative and entertaining browsing, depicting how filled our language is with sports metaphors, many of whose derivations are little known: the devil to pay, ' hazard a guess, ' red herring, ' etc. Even libraries with numerous oth...
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227 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780313264269
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Greenwood
Publication date: 24 March 1989
Description
provide s] informative and entertaining browsing, depicting how filled our language is with sports metaphors, many of whose derivations are little known: the devil to pay, ' hazard a guess, ' red herring, ' etc. Even libraries with numerous oth...