Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious Sayings
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ISBN: 0062720112 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0062720112 Global Overview for this book
Registered by BruceAlexander of Ruidoso, New Mexico USA on 3/3/2012
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Here's a quick quiz for you:
1) Does the phrase "mad as a hatter" relate to people who made hats and their implied looniness?
2) Who originated the phrase "iron curtain": Winston Churchill, Joseph Goebbels, or H. G. Wells?
3) Why do people "take forty winks" and not fifty or some other number?
The answers to these questions are all to be found in this book - along with the stories of over four hundred other droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. These sayings are derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of mankind.
1) Does the phrase "mad as a hatter" relate to people who made hats and their implied looniness?
2) Who originated the phrase "iron curtain": Winston Churchill, Joseph Goebbels, or H. G. Wells?
3) Why do people "take forty winks" and not fifty or some other number?
The answers to these questions are all to be found in this book - along with the stories of over four hundred other droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. These sayings are derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of mankind.
Journal Entry 2 by BruceAlexander at Plaza West Retirement Home in Sun City Center, Florida USA on Saturday, November 23, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (11/23/2013 UTC) at Plaza West Retirement Home in Sun City Center, Florida USA
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Releasing through the "NJABBIC" Challenge (week 46: punctuation) while on visitation rounds