It's Raining Cats and Dogs

It's Raining Cats and Dogs
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Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages : 98
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ISBN-10 : 9781849052832
ISBN-13 : 1849052832
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Book Synopsis It's Raining Cats and Dogs by : Michael Barton

Download or read book It's Raining Cats and Dogs written by Michael Barton and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers insight into an autistic person's mind through classic figures of speech that contain confusing or contradictory wording, drawings that show what he believes the expressions mean, and their actual meanings.

It's Raining Cats and Dogs

It's Raining Cats and Dogs
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Publisher : CompanionHouse Books
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 1931993742
ISBN-13 : 9781931993746
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Book Synopsis It's Raining Cats and Dogs by : Jackie Franza

Download or read book It's Raining Cats and Dogs written by Jackie Franza and published by CompanionHouse Books. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the origins and meanings to a number of animal expressions that are used in everyday language.

Word Myths

Word Myths
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780199740833
ISBN-13 : 0199740836
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Book Synopsis Word Myths by : David Wilton

Download or read book Word Myths written by David Wilton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you "know" that posh comes from an acronym meaning "port out, starboard home"? That "the whole nine yards" comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic football expression? That Chicago is called "The Windy City" because of the bloviating habits of its politicians, and not the breeze off the lake? If so, you need this book. David Wilton debunks the most persistently wrong word histories, and gives, to the best of our actual knowledge, the real stories behind these perennially mis-etymologized words. In addition, he explains why these wrong stories are created, disseminated, and persist, even after being corrected time and time again. What makes us cling to these stories, when the truth behind these words and phrases is available, for the most part, at any library or on the Internet? Arranged by chapters, this book avoids a dry A-Z format. Chapters separate misetymologies by kind, including The Perils of Political Correctness (picnics have nothing to do with lynchings), Posh, Phat Pommies (the problems of bacronyming--the desire to make every word into an acronym), and CANOE (which stands for the Conspiracy to Attribute Nautical Origins to Everything). Word Myths corrects long-held and far-flung examples of wrong etymologies, without taking the fun out of etymology itself. It's the best of both worlds: not only do you learn the many wrong stories behind these words, you also learn why and how they are created--and what the real story is.

Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 626
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ISBN-10 : 0674219813
ISBN-13 : 9780674219816
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by : Bartlett Jere Whiting

Download or read book Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."

It's Raining Cats and Dogs

It's Raining Cats and Dogs
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Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : 0945912013
ISBN-13 : 9780945912019
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Download or read book It's Raining Cats and Dogs written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of jokes about cats and dogs. Example: What's the worst weather for rats and mice? When it's raining cats and dogs.

Excel Practice

Excel Practice
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Publisher : Pascal Press
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 1864412526
ISBN-13 : 9781864412529
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Excel Practice by : Alan Horsfield

Download or read book Excel Practice written by Alan Horsfield and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

It's Raining Cats and Dogs--and Other Beastly Expressions

It's Raining Cats and Dogs--and Other Beastly Expressions
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Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : IND:39000006085497
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Book Synopsis It's Raining Cats and Dogs--and Other Beastly Expressions by : Christine Ammer

Download or read book It's Raining Cats and Dogs--and Other Beastly Expressions written by Christine Ammer and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have an "eagle-eye" for a bargain? Have you ever been "hounded" by a "loan-shark" or hustled by a "pool-shark"? Have you been the victim of a "stool-pigeon" or a "rat", or the "scapegoat" for some "foxy" character's misdeeds? Expressions like these lend color and character to our everyday conversation. Many of them are so familiar that we rarely pause to wonder how or when they came into use in the language. But their origins are fascinating to discover and fun to share.