The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors: A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms

by Josh Chetwynd

Book Overview

A gift-worthy playbook of common and unexpected words and idioms that have their roots in sports and games. There are many metaphors we can quickly identify from the realm of sports: covering all the bases (baseball), game plan (football), and par for the course (golf). But the English language is also peppered with the not-so-obvious influence of sports and games, such as go-to guy (basketball) and dead ringer (horse racing). Filled with pithy entries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607748118
• ISBN13: 9781607748113
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.1"