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Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors

Robert Claiborne
Paperback - $24.95

The English Language is a treasury of splendid mysteries, among them the many words and phrases whose origins we no longer know. Often the original meaning was literal, pertaining to forgotten objects or activities -- such as "aftermath", which once ...