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Book Synopsis Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases and Names by : Basil Hargrave
Download or read book Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases and Names written by Basil Hargrave and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis ORIGINS AND MEANINGS OF POPULAR PHRASES NAMES by : BASIL. HARGRAVE
Download or read book ORIGINS AND MEANINGS OF POPULAR PHRASES NAMES written by BASIL. HARGRAVE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases Names (Classic Reprint) by : Basil Hargrave
Download or read book Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases Names (Classic Reprint) written by Basil Hargrave and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases Names This book is put forward in the belief that a demand exists for a concise epitome of the origin and meaning of words and phrases which are in every-day use but which are often not appreciated at their full significance. Its size is sufficient to show that it is neither intended to be an exhaustive philological treatise nor an academic encyclopaedia, but it aims at throwing an interesting light on many words by recalling their derivation, and it endeavours to give useful information in a pleasant and chatty form. One of the chief difficulties in its compilation has been the selection of its contents. Some criterion had to be established, as it was obviously impossible, while confining the book to convenient limits, to include everything that would be of interest to all, and yet that which might appear most desirable to some, might be esteemed valueless by others. Eventually, as the result of much cogitation, the compiler decided to cut the Gordian knot by boldly wielding the sword of his own fancy - only that which seemed of interest to him should be included. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases & Names by : Basil Hargrave
Download or read book Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases & Names written by Basil Hargrave and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings by : Trench H. Johnson
Download or read book Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings written by Trench H. Johnson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings" by Trench H. Johnson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases and Names by : Basil Hargrave
Download or read book Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases and Names written by Basil Hargrave and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings written by Trench H. Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEW WORDS ARE NECESSARY TO INTRODUCE THIS WORK TO THE READER. IT PARTAKES OF THE NATURE OF AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA, WITH THE SAVING CLAUSE THAT THE INFORMATION IT SETS FORTH IS CONFINED TO A PLAIN STATEMENT OF FACTS. VERBAL EMBELLISHMENTS HAVE BEEN STUDIOUSLY AVOIDED. THOSE WHO SEEK FOR ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE MAY EASILY OBTAIN IT FROM ORDINARILY AVAILABLE SOURCES. TO ACCOUNT FOR THE ORIGIN OF POPULAR PHRASES AND NAMES HAS BEEN THE AUTHOR'S SOLE DESIGN. TO THE BEST OF HIS KNOWLEDGE, NO OTHER WORK OF THE KIND EXISTS. FROM THE STORES OF HIS OWN KNOWLEDGE, ACQUIRED THROUGH MANY YEARS OF OMNIVOROUS READING, PATIENT INQUIRY, AND INVESTIGATION, HE HAS BEEN ENABLED TO BRING TOGETHER AN Olla podrida WHICH SHOULD GO FAR TOWARDS SUPPLYING A WANT. THE ORIGIN OF PLACE-NAMES IS INTERESTING IN THAT IT OPENS UP THE HISTORY OF PEOPLES AND THE CIVILISING INFLUENCES, IF SO ONE MIGHT TERM IT, OF CONQUEST. LONDON STREET-NAMES, IN PARTICULAR, CONVEY IN ONE WORD TO A PERSON OF ANTIQUARIAN TASTES AS MUCH MEANING AS "A VOLUME OF FORGOTTEN LORE." AS TO PHRASES AND EXPRESSIONS, THE AUTHOR HAS MADE A SPECIAL STUDY OF THE SUBJECT. A GREAT MANY AMERICANISMS HAVE BEEN INCLUDED, BUT AS THE NUMBER IS DAILY INCREASING IT WOULD REQUIRE A MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF SUCH HOME-MADE PHRASES TO KEEP FULLY ABREAST WITH THE TIMES. THAT NOTHING SHOULD BE WANTING IN THE WAY OF EXHAUSTIVENESS, IT HAS BEEN THOUGHT ADVISABLE TO INCORPORATE IN THE viTEXT A NUMBER OF SLANG TERMS AND EXPRESSIONS WHICH DAILY ASSAIL ONE'S EARS. TO THE AUTHOR THE COMPILATION OF THIS VOLUME HAS BEEN A PLEASANT RECREATION IN THE INTERVALS OF MORE EXACTING LITERARY LABOURS. IF IT BE FOUND TO CONTAIN A PLETHORA OF GOOD THINGS, THE READER WILL, OF COURSE, TAKE THEM OUT IN SMALL DOSES. T. H. J. LONDON, 1906.
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Book Synopsis Origins and Meaning of Popular Phrases & Names by : Basil Hargrave
Download or read book Origins and Meaning of Popular Phrases & Names written by Basil Hargrave and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Phrases and Names Their Origins and Meanings (Classic Reprint) by : Trench H. Johnson
Download or read book Phrases and Names Their Origins and Meanings (Classic Reprint) written by Trench H. Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Phrases and Names Their Origins and Meanings Abbey Laird. An insolvent debtor who in former times sought the sanctuary of the precincts Of Holyrood Abbey against arrest. Abbey Road. From the ancient abbey of the Holy Virgins of St John the Baptist in St John's Wood. Abbotsford. The name given by Sir Walter Scott to his residence on the banks of the Tweed, from the poetical assumption that the abbots of Melrose must have forded the stream hereabouts in olden times. A.b.c. Girls. Waitresses at the depots of the Aerated Bread Company Limited. Aberdeen. From the Celtic aber, estuary, confluence; the town at the mouth of the Dee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis PHRASES AND NAMES THEIR ORIGINS AND MEANINGS by : TRENCH H. JOHNSON
Download or read book PHRASES AND NAMES THEIR ORIGINS AND MEANINGS written by TRENCH H. JOHNSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Watch Your Tongue written by Mark Abley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phrases, idioms, and clichés—why do we say the things we say? Watch Your Tongue explores weird and wonderful everyday sayings and what they reveal about us. Do you ever wonder why you shouldn’t have a cow but you should seize a bull by its horns? Who has the better reputation in language—cats or dogs? Do you sometimes feel that our speech is all smoke and mirrors or that our expressions simply make no sense? In Watch Your Tongue, award-winning author Mark Abley explores the phrases, idioms, and clichés of our everyday language. With wit and subtle wisdom, he unravels the mysteries of these expressions, illuminating the history, tradition and stories behind everything we say. Pulling examples from Shakespeare’s plays to sports team names, ancient Rome to Twitter, Abley shares samples and anecdotes of the eccentric ways that we play with, parse, and pattern language. Why do so many companies use fruit for their brand names? What do politicians mean when they say they’re going to “drain the swamp”? Why does English use chickens to signify cowardice? Abley dives into the history and psychology behind these examples and countless others, unpacking their significance (and sheer absurdity) to show how our language developed, where it is headed, and what we can learn about ourselves from it. Whimsically illustrated, easily browsable, and full of catchy sidebars, Watch Your Tongue celebrates how we amuse ourselves with words and what our sayings reveal about the way we see the world.
Book Synopsis Phrases and Names by : Trench Johnson
Download or read book Phrases and Names written by Trench Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising well over 4,000 entries, this interesting glossary, first published in 1906, details the origins and meanings of many terms, words, sayings, and place names. Most will be familiar to the modern reader but their origin may not. A few example entries are given below: Mad as a Hatter. A corruption of "Mad as an atter." Atter expressed the Saxon for a viper or adder. The word "Mad" was anciently used in the sense of venomous; hence this expression really meant "venomous as a viper." Sardinia. Called Sandaliotis by the Greeks on account of its resemblance to a human footprint; this name was changed by the Romans to Sardo. At a later period the island was called Sardonion, from a poisonous herb, transplanted from Sardis in Asia Minor, which brought about a twitching of the muscles of the face resembling laughter; hence the phrase to "Smile sardonically." Set the Thames on fire. A "temse" was the old name for a sieve, agreeably to the French tamis and the Italian tamiso, which terms express the same implement. A sifter would require to work very hard indeed to ignite his sieve. Accordingly a bystander often said to him touching his apparent laziness: "You'll never set the temse on fire!" Its punning application to the River Thames is perhaps pardonable. Wallop. In the year 1514 the French fleet ravaged the coast of Sussex, and burned Brighthelmstone, now Brighton, whereupon Sir John Wallop, one of the best naval commanders of his time, was sent by Henry VIII. to make reprisals. In this he succeeded only too well; he burned twenty-one French coasting villages, demolished several harbours, and thrashed the enemy to his heart's content. His men, however, proud of the achievement, declared that they had Walloped the French; and thus it was that a new synonym for "thrash" came to be incorporated into the English language. This work is not a cheap scan or the result of copying and pasting; It contains no missing pages, areas of blurred or missing text, photocopier's fingers, coffee stains, or other scanning artifacts. It has all of the original text, retyped and reformatted in an easy to read format. For the modern reader, numerous publisher's notes are inserted to explain obscure and outdated terms.
Download or read book Common Phrases written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everyday Phrases written by Neil Ewart and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the meaning and implication of 400 phrases commonly used throughout the English-speaking world, such as: eager beaver and sour grapes.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins by : Linda Flavell
Download or read book Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins written by Linda Flavell and published by Kyle Books. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted 17 times since it was published in 1992, Dictionary of Idioms has been fully rewritten."This sort of book has two purposes. The first is to be a work of reference ... The second is to entertain ... Linda and Roger Flavell are discerning in their choice of phrase and assiduous in uncovering their origins." --Times Literary Supplement
Book Synopsis Appius and Virginia by : John Dennis
Download or read book Appius and Virginia written by John Dennis and published by . This book was released on 1700 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: