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This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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- 2001
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