Loose cannons & red herrings
Subtitle: a book of lost metaphors
By: Robert Claiborne.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: English language -- Etymology -- Dictionaries.; Metaphor -- Dictionaries.; English language -- Terms and phrases.
Other titles: Loose cannons and red herrings.
Description: Reveals the wonders buried in everyday speech, vivid images of people and human encounters from the past. More than a thousand metaphors are collected here.