A hog on ice and other curious expressions
By: Charles Earle Funk ; with illustrations by Tom Funk.
Edition: 1st Harper colophon ed.
Series: Harper colophon books
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: English language -- Terms and phrases.; English language -- Etymology.
Description: "An individual collection of phrases, fancied by the author because of their place in our language, this sometimes goes back 2,000 years for the original practice, and gives an. . . account of the altering of meanings, and clues by which he traced the story of the sayings."
Notes: Includes index.