Author: Albert Jack
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ISBN: 9781846148453
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Languages : en
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Author: Albert Jack
Publisher: Perigee Trade
ISBN: 9780399535123
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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The follow-up to Red Herrings and White Elephants explains the history of the curious and bizarre origins of hundreds of idioms and expressions, including “wearing your heart on your sleeve” and a “black sheep in the family.”

Author: Albert Jack
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781981439256
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Albert Jack's Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep is a compulsively readable, highly enlightening look at the phrases we use all the time but rarely consider. The English language is crammed with colourful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day. It's only when we're asked who smart Alec or Holy Moly were, where feeling 'in the pink' or 'once in a blue moon' come from, or even what letting the cat out of the bag really means that we realize that there's far more to English than we might have thought. Luckily enough, we now have Albert Jack. And rather than resting on his laurels after the enormous success of Red Herrings and White Elephants, he has continued his search around the world, exploring the origins of hundreds more phrases. The fascinating stories he has uncovered come from the rich traditions of the navy, army and law to confidence tricksters and highwaymen, from the practices of ancient civilizations to Music Hall and pubs. Determined to chase each shaggy dog story to the bitter end, his discoveries are even stranger and more memorable this time round. From the skin of your teeth to the graveyard shift - you'll never speak (or even think) English in the same way again. Albert Jack has become something of a publishing phenomenon, clocking up hundreds of thousands of sales with his series of bestselling adventures tracing the fantastic stories behind everyday phrases (Red Herrings and White Elephants), the world's great mysteries (Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs) nursery rhymes (Pop Goes the Weasel) pub names (The Old Dog and Duck and food history (What Caesar did for My Salad

Author: Elizabeth L. Griffen
Publisher:
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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When young Wilby Daniels utters some magical words over an ancient ring, he is transformed into a sheep dog.

Author: Elisabeth Heck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907349044
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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A black sheep strays from the flock and misses being sheared. In winter she shelters in a cave where a man, woman and child are trying to keep warm. They lay their baby amongst the sheep's thick woolly coat for warmth. The shepherd discovers the sheep but it stays with the couple.

Author: Top That! Publishing PLC
Publisher: Kudos Books
ISBN: 9781842293331
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Harvey Martin
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598589326
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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This collection of classic stories was not compiled to be just another prizewinning book of humor. However, for the majority of individuals who get this book to read and enjoy as one of the funniest collections of groaners in existence today, it will be just that. You'll get the book, read it, get sick with laughter (even though you don't understand many of the stories), and then display it proudly in your bookcase along with the other "best sellers" you've collected over the years. About Harvey Martin I grew up in South St. Louis in an ethnic neighborhood just north of a German area know as "down by the Bevois Mill, where the street car makes da bend in da track, aint it yet" My greatest accomplishment was graduating from Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in the early sixties. Actually, that was my second greatest accomplishment, with my wife, children and grandchildren being the most significant. After graduating as a metallurgist, I left St. Louis and its terrible accent to go and make steel in Gary, IN. My resume includes that of an engineer, an entrepreneur, a writer, a golfer, an inventor, a Shaggy Dog storyteller supreme and light hauling when I can get it. My greatest downside is procrastination, but I just could not decide where to state that fact. That attribute completely explains why it has taken over 25 years to complete this project.

Author: Elizabeth Shaw
Publisher: Learning Links
ISBN: 9780862781026
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Elizabeth L. Griffen
Publisher:
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Elisabeth Beresford
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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