HEAVENS TO BETSY! And Other Curious Sayings
Häftad bok. PERENNIAL LIBRARY. 1986. 224 sidor sidor.
Mycket gott skick.
Perennial Library 1983. 224 sid. Illustrated by Tom Funk. Bruksspår!
Here´s quick quiz for you:
1) Does the phrase "mad as a hatter" relate to people who made hats and their implied looniness? 2) Who orginated the phrase "iron curtain": Winston Chrchill, Joseg Goebbels, or H G Wells? 3) Why do people "take forty winks" and not fifty, or some other number? 4) How old is the phrase "ambulance chaser"? 5) What´s the French equivalent of "other fish to fry"? 6) Is a " tempest in a teacup" anything like a "storm in a wash-basin"?
The answers of these questions are all to be found in this book - along with the stories of over four hundred other droll, coloful, and sometimes pungen expressions of everyday speech. Thes sayings are derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of mankind.
Charles Earle Funk (1881-1957) was editor-in-chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series. He wrote several other books om word and phrase origins, including "A Hog On Ice" and "Horsefeathers".
