Red herrings and white elephants
Jack, Albert2021
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Bold as brass, cold feet, cock and bull, off the cuff, red herrings and white elephants - we use these phrases every day and yet have only the vaguest idea of where many of them come from. The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in this book.
Main title:
Red herrings and white elephants / Albert Jack.
Author:
Jack, Albert, author
Imprint:
London : John Blake Publishing, 2021.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Metro, 2004.Includes index.
ISBN:
9781789465624 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
428
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1928070