- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Perennial; Auflage: Reprint (22. Oktober 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060513314
- ISBN-13: 978-0060513313
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,3 x 13,6 x 1,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.290.340 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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He's as mad as a hatter!
Whether it's like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we've never really known why ... until now! Finally Dr. Funk explains more than 400 droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. Derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of humankind, each of these sayings has an interesting story behind its origin.
If you've ever wondered why when you're in a hurry you are told to hold your horses, wonder no more!
Über den Autor
Charles Earle Funk was editor in chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series. He wrote several other books on word and phrase origins, including Horsefeathers, Heavens to Betsy!, and Thereby Hangs a Tale.
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Everyone has seen the way a cat acts with a mouse that she has caught. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Format:Taschenbuch
An excellent source; a good evening's read. Might just learn something while being entertained.
Format:Taschenbuch
While many of the entries were interesting, too many were included for which the author admitted he could only guess, or had no idea at all of the origin. Even the title phrase, "Heavens to Betsy" was a complete mystery to the author. Why pique our interest and then disappoint us? I think the author had a good thing going with his first books and just tried to "ride the gravy train" a little too long.
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60 von 65 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Too many sayings for which the author didnt know the origin!
6. Mai 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
While many of the entries were interesting, too many were included for which the author admitted he could only guess, or had no idea at all of the origin. Even the title phrase, "Heavens to Betsy" was a complete mystery to the author. Why pique our interest and then disappoint us? I think the author had a good thing going with his first books and just tried to "ride the gravy train" a little too long.
32 von 33 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Basically a dictionary....
13. Juli 2001
Format:Taschenbuch
I wanted to find out why we, as a society, say such things as "knock on wood" or "in one ear and out the other". Where does that come from? Who started it? I was extremely excited to purchase this book, thinking it would not only answer my questions, but be entertaining. It was a major disappointment. I found the reading very dull. The sayings were obviously well researched, giving origins, dates, and analizations of each words meaning; yet it was more like a dictionary than a story of how the sayings came about.
This book has been sitting in my bookcase since the day I bought it waiting for a rummage sale.
21 von 23 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
horrible format
18. Oktober 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
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the format of this book is the worst i could ever imagine.
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the sayings aren't in alphabetical order, and in no subject category or chapters.
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the title of the book's quotation (heaven's to betsy) couldn't be answered in regard to origination, after pages of writing and writing.
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the table of the contents is not useful. for example, "three sheets in the wind" shows page 81, so on page 81 you had to look all over the page to find it listed under a totally different listing. and then it STILL didn't even mention "3S2DW"'s origination.
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another example, the first slogan is "to play cat and mouse with one" -- why in the world would that slogan be first?
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maybe others aren't as particular as i am, but i would pass on this book. pass it on to an incinerator, that is.
the format of this book is the worst i could ever imagine.
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the sayings aren't in alphabetical order, and in no subject category or chapters.
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the title of the book's quotation (heaven's to betsy) couldn't be answered in regard to origination, after pages of writing and writing.
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the table of the contents is not useful. for example, "three sheets in the wind" shows page 81, so on page 81 you had to look all over the page to find it listed under a totally different listing. and then it STILL didn't even mention "3S2DW"'s origination.
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another example, the first slogan is "to play cat and mouse with one" -- why in the world would that slogan be first?
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maybe others aren't as particular as i am, but i would pass on this book. pass it on to an incinerator, that is.
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