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Heavens to Betsy!: & Other Curious Sayings
Charles E. Funk
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| #418937 in Books | 2002-10-22 | 2002-10-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.50 x5.31l,.38 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Exquisitely researched and written. Worth every cent|By Priamsdaughter|My original review of this book read "Inclusive, witty, detailed and well written, buy this volume and you won't be able to stop until you've read it cover to cover." but after I thought about it it seemed to me I omitted a great deal. Language, as we know, is constantly changing and this well researched b|About the Author||Charles Earle Funk was editor in chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series. He wrote several other books on word and phrase origins, including Horsefeathers, Heavens to Betsy!, and Thereby Hangs a Tale.
He's as mad as a hatter!
Whether it's like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we've never really known why ... until now! Finally Dr. Funk explains more than 400 droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. Derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of humankind, each of these sayings has an interestin...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Heavens to Betsy!: & Other Curious Sayings | Charles E. Funk. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.