Cleopatra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense & 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance
- ISBN-10
- 0132167972
- ISBN-13
- 9780132167970
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines / General
- Pages
- 266
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall Press
- Authors
- Jerome Agel, Walter D. Glanze
Description
Identifies and explains more than 1,200 verbal allusions and watchwords inspired by world events, figures, and literature since ancient times
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