Title: A hog on ice and other curious expressions
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."
Subjects: English language, Etymology, Semantics, Terms and phrases, English language, terms and phrases, Idioms