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A Fish Out of Water
A Fish Out of Water
Author: Grange
The Origins and Meanings of the Food we Speak.  — The English language is seasoned with words and phrases, idioms and expressions that owe their origins to the kitchen, the bakery, the cellar, the larder and everywhere else that food and drink is prepared and enjoyed. — Whether you're full of beans that everything is in apple...  more », feel like a fish out of water because you're playing gooseberry, or are in a stew for being a ham-fisted butterfingers, you'll find plenty to get your teeth into in this feast of delicious sayings.

Big cheese and hard cheese, old bean and old chestnut, pie-eyed and pie in the sky; salt away and salt of the earth: our everyday speech is peppered up in this entertaining A-Z.  If you want to know why the apple of her eye might one day become a couch potato, this is the book for you.

First published in 2000 as Bringing Home the Bacon and Cutting the Mustard.
ISBN-13: 9781840136258
ISBN-10: 1840136251
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 191
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Publisher: Grange Books
Book Type: Paperback
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