Black sheep and lame ducks

the origins of even more phrases we use every day

1st American ed.

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Black sheep and lame ducks

the origins of even more phrases we use every day

1st American ed.

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Penguin Group
Language
English

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Table of Contents

Money (or the lack of it)
All at sea
Country wisdom
Going to war
The world of books
That's entertainment
Exotic origins
This sporting life
Religion
People and places
Animalistic
The working day
All-american
The ruling classes
Food for thought
The ancient world
Both sides of the law
Love and death.

Edition Notes

"A Perigee Book."

Originally published: Great Britain : Allen Lane, 2007.

"Perigee trade paperback."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Terms and phrases

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
422
Library of Congress
PE1689 .J318 2010, PE1689.J318 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23972649M
Internet Archive
blacksheeplamedu0000jack
ISBN 13
9780399535123
LCCN
2009050886
OCLC/WorldCat
462903024

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