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230 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780304345632
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cassell
Publication date: 01 August 1995
Description
This wide-ranging A-Z guide to over 1,200 popular expressions uncovers amusing origins of both traditional and modern sayings. "A picture is worth a thousand words" is historically believed to be a Chinese proverb. In reality, it appeared in the P...
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230 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780304345632
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cassell
Publication date: 01 August 1995
Description
This wide-ranging A-Z guide to over 1,200 popular expressions uncovers amusing origins of both traditional and modern sayings. "A picture is worth a thousand words" is historically believed to be a Chinese proverb. In reality, it appeared in the P...