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PsychologyGreat book for anyone who wants to know where sayings come from. Gives you an explanation of how the saying is used and where the saying originated from. Missing a few saying but has a lot you may not even know about.
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Language is a tricky thing. Its development is fluid and often lost in the mists of time. Why do we say what we say? Words have origins that are sometimes traced readily, but at other times defy explanation. This is often even more true of sayings and expressions. It can seem a veritable pandemonium. By the way, where do we get the term pandemonium? If it sounds Latinate to you, you're on the right track, but in fact...
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This book is full of explanations and origins to over 600 words and phrases used in modern English. Unlike many books that examine the origins of words, this book is easy to read and is highly entertaining. Anyone who enjoys trivia will love this and even for those who don't, it's an enjoyable read nonetheless.
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If you want to know the origins of 'Once in a blue moon' or 'Here mud in your eye' or countless other phases and words, this is the book for you. The book is a very entertaining resource full of the mundane and arcane roots of common phrases. This is truly the stuff in which trivia games are made.
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