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Why do we say a person is the "spitting image" of someone else, or "take a rain check"? These questions are rarely answered by conventional dictionaries, but this book takes a wide-ranging approach to problems of etymology, challenging a few long-held theories on the way
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Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, Nigel Rees
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- Released
- 1994
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nigel Rees
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0304344222
- ISBN13
- 9780304344222
- Series
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
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- Why do we say a person is the "spitting image" of someone else, or "take a rain check"? These questions are rarely answered by conventional dictionaries, but this book takes a wide-ranging approach to problems of etymology, challenging a few long-held theories on the way