Cleopatra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense & 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance

ISBN-10
0132187027
ISBN-13
9780132187022
Category
English language
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
1990
Author
Jerome Agel

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