Cleopatra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense and 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance: The Twinkie Defense and 1200 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popu

by Jerome Agel

Book Overview

Twinkie defense? A message to Garcia? Darwin's bulldog? What exactly do these phrases mean? This absorbing cultural dictionary identifies and explains 1,200 verbal allusions, shedding light on world... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132167972
• ISBN13: 9780132167970
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.