Humble Pie and Cold Turkey

Humble Pie and Cold Turkey

by Caroline Taggart
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 30/09/2021

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‘Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.’ – Yorkshire Post

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In this highly entertaining book, language enthusiast and Sunday Times best-selling author Caroline Taggart browses through thousands of years of history to shed light on why we use the words and phrases we do. Arranged by themes including food, the household, childhood, romance and more, this intriguing book looks at the origins of our language from their historical context. For example, did you know that:


If you rest on your laurels, you’re imitating a complacent Roman general?

If you eavesdrop, you’re likely to get wet?

If you’re taken aback, you should, strictly speaking, be a sailing ship?

If you’re galvanized into action, you’re behaving like Frankenstein’s monster?


From blue-blooded (an invention of aristocratic Spaniards) to limelight (a way of lighting Victorian theatres), passing an exam with flying colours (another image from sailing ships) to winning hands down (from horse racing), Humble Pie and Cold Turkey will answer questions you may never have thought to ask. Including why turkeys need to be cold and how pies came to be humble.

ISBN:
9781789293470
9781789293470
Category:
Grammar & vocabulary
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
30-09-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Michael O'Mara
Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart is the bestselling author of I Used to Know That and, in the same series, A Classical Education and An Apple a Day.

She also co-wrote My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?). Her other books include Her Ladyship's Guide to the Queen's English, The Book of English Place Names and The Book of London Place Names.

She also appears frequently on radio and TV giving her opinion on such subjects as whether or not there should be an apostrophe in Druids Cross and, if so, where it should go.

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