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Problem:One might say that subtitling the present book A Book of Lost Metaphors is an example of a loose canon [ sic ] unless metaphor is taken in its broadest sensebut one is unlikely to find red herrings here: the etymologies of a few hundred words and phrases are given, many not readily findable in standard works of reference.
Solution:
1 might say subtitling the present book A Book of Lost Metaphors is an example of a loose canon, it is the etymologies of a few hundred words and phrases are given, many not readily findable in standard works of reference.