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Readers should be familiar with Robert Claiborne's earlier books, especially Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the English Language. 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.
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You should be familiar with Claiborne's earlier books. One might say that subtitling the book A Book of Lost Metaphors is an example of a loose cannon, but it's unlikely to find red herrings here.