Cleopetra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense, & 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance

Autor*innen

• Jerome Agel
• Walter D. Glanze

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• Handbücher und Anleitungen

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Twinkie defense? A message to Garcia? Darwin's bulldog? What exactly do these phrases mean? This absorbing cultural dictionary identifies and explains 1,200 verbal allusions, shedding light on world events as well as the verbal shorthand inherited from past generations.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Einband: Paperback