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Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins

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By (author): Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books. Yorkshire Post
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The huge variety of colourful phrases contained in the English language are notoriously varied and, often, notably odd. From blue-blooded (an invention of aristocratic Spaniards) to limelight (a way of lighting Victorian theatres), passing an exam with flying colours (an image from sailing ships) to winning hands down (from horse racing), the fascinating expressions that make up our language are explored in Humble Pie and Cold Turkey.

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, youre imitating a complacent Roman general?
If you eavesdrop, youre likely to get wet?
If youre taken aback, you should, strictly speaking, be a sailing ship?
If youre galvanized into action, youre behaving like Frankensteins monster?

Humble Pie and Cold Turkey will prompt you to question the downright bizarre idioms we use to express ourselves, and answer questions you may never have thought to ask. Including why turkeys need to be cold and how pies came to be humble.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 180g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Feb 2023
  • Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781789295146

About Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O'Mara Books to write I Used to Know That which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?) and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio talking about language grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe.Her website is carolinetaggart.co.uk and you can follow her on Twitter @citaggart.

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