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Cool Cats, Top Dogs, and Other Beastly Expressions
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Title: Cool Cats, Top Dogs, and Other Beastly Expressions
Author: Christine Ammer
ISBN: 9780395957301
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 266
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Our language is filled with animal expressions, many of them so familiar that we rarely stop to wonder where they came from or when they first appeared. Cool Cats, Top Dogs, and Other Beastly Expressions tells the stories of more than one thousand beastly words and phrases in fascinating and highly informative essays that you will turn to again and again. So whether you're "crowing over your accomplishments" or "going to the dogs," feeling "happy as a clam" or "madder than a wet hen," you're sure to enjoy this entertaining look at the animal expressions that color and enliven our everyday language.
Author: Christine Ammer
ISBN: 9780395957301
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 266
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Our language is filled with animal expressions, many of them so familiar that we rarely stop to wonder where they came from or when they first appeared. Cool Cats, Top Dogs, and Other Beastly Expressions tells the stories of more than one thousand beastly words and phrases in fascinating and highly informative essays that you will turn to again and again. So whether you're "crowing over your accomplishments" or "going to the dogs," feeling "happy as a clam" or "madder than a wet hen," you're sure to enjoy this entertaining look at the animal expressions that color and enliven our everyday language.
