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Flying by the Seat of Your Pants: Surprising Origins of Everyday Expressions by Harry Oliver Publisher Comments Let's "cut to the chase" and "make no bones about it"-this book will have you "pleased as punch." Sowing your wild oats, throwing in the towel, painting the town red...Harry Oliver reveals the fascinating stories behind these and other strange turns of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang by Jonathan Bernstein Publisher Comments An entertaining and informative compendium of "Britspeak" takes a close-up look at the colorful expressions, terms, and phrases of British slang, uncovering the origins and history, correct usage, and etymology of everything from "sweet as a nut" to... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms by Ralph Keyes Publisher Comments How did die become kick the bucket, underwear become unmentionables, and having an affair become hiking the Appalachian trail? Originally used to avoid blasphemy, honor taboos, and make nice, euphemisms have become embedded in the fabric of our language.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by Max Decharne Publisher Comments Righteous jive for all you weedheads, moochers, b-girls, gassers, bandrats, triggermen, grifters, snowbirds, and long-gone daddies. Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the 1960s actually dates back to before World War II,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins by Linda Flavell Publisher Comments The English language contains a rich store of idioms that can be used in creative and forceful ways. This book examines over 400 such phrases, tracing each one's source and history through the chronological use of examples. While maintaining scholarly... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big Book of Filth: 6500 Sex Slang Words and Phrases (Reference) by Jonathan Green Publisher Comments Visceral, raw, and utterly lewd and rude, these more than 6,500 off-color phrases provide a guided tour of sexual wordscapes. Categories include body parts (men's and women's); states of arousal and frustration; masturbation and orgasm; intercourse in a... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture by Geoffrey Nunberg Publisher Comments This engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America& #39; s best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and phrases. From our metaphors for the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined by Aaron Peckham Publisher Comments Compiled from the wildly popular Web site urbandictionary.com, "Mo Urban Dictionary" includes more than 2,000 of the latest contemporary slang entries. Each alphabetized entry includes a word, a definition, and a sample sentence. Pop-ups throughout the... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Creative Cussin', the Redneck Edition: A Mix 'n' Match Profanity Generator by Sarah Royal Synopsis This "Creative Cursing" follow-up is a redneck-inspired curse-word generator of creative swearing and fun verbal abuse. Turn to any two pages at random in the one-of-a-kind novelty flip book format for a fresh new insult.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Spiral/comb
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Creative Cursing: A Mix 'n' Match Profanity Generator by Sarah Royal Publisher Comments Whether youre annoyed with your neighbor, agitated with your boss, or tired of your lazy roommate, this unique side-by-side flippable flap novelty book of amusing and socially unacceptable phrases will provide endless possibilities for creative and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Spiral/comb
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms by American Heritage Publisher Comments This book defines nearly 10,000 idioms--expressions consisting of two or more words whose combined meaning is different from the literal meaning of the individual words. Each entry has both a definition and a sentence showing the idiom used in context.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Le Mot Juste: A Dictionary of Classical and Foreign Words and Phrases by John Buchanan Brown Publisher Comments Tired of making faux pas because you don't know the difference between sub rosa and sub voce? Then this lexicon is a bona fide desideratum. Simply and concisely, it clarifies hundreds of words and phrases from Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dictionary of American Regional English Volume 1 by Frederic Cassidy Publisher Comments This series capture the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from east to west, north to south, childhood to old age. Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken... (read more) List Price $149.75 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Thesaurus of Slang: Over 165,000 Uncensored Contemporary Slang Terms, Common Idioms, & Colloquialisms, Updated for the 1990's & Arranged for Quick & Easy Reference by Esther Lewin Publisher Comments More than 165,000 uncensored contemporary slang terms, common idioms, and colloquialisms are detailed, offering quick and easy access to expressions gathered from a wide variety of sources, from newspapers and magazines to television and casual... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $34.00 Used - Hardcover
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Happy Trails: A Dictionary of Western Expressions by Robert Hendrickson Publisher Comments Filled with thousands of entertaining expressions, anecdotes, idioms, and catchwords, Happy Trails captures all of the unique bits of language spoken west of the Mississippi River clear to the Pacific.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Dictionary of Slang by Oxford Publisher Comments Slang is language with its sleeves rolled up, colorful, pointed, brash, bristling with humor and sometimes with hostility. Here, John Ayto has brought together over 10,000 slang words and phrases common to 20th-century English, to provide a comprehensive... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Judith Siefring Publisher Comments Did you know that 'flavor of the month' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlors in the 1940s, when a particular flavor would be specially promoted for a month at a time? And did you know that 'off the cuff' refers to the rather... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How to Talk American: A Guide to Our Native Tongues by Jim Crotty Publisher Comments For twelve years Jim Crotty has been traveling this great country in his roving Monkmobile (don't ask) and in the process has discovered how Americans really speak, from coast to coast and border to border - from Bible Belt Banter to Vegas Vernacular... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Slang (4TH 08 Edition) by Barbara Ann Kipfer Publisher Comments With 1,500 new words and phrases, this abridged edition of the Dictionary of American Slang is the most buzzworthy, banging collection of colloquial American English—no joke This fully updated and abridged fourth edition of American Slang contains... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Informal English: Puncture Ladies, Egg Harbors, Mississippi Marbles, and Other Curious Words and Phrases of North America by Jeffrey Kacirk Publisher Comments Gleaned from antiquated dictionaries, dialect glossaries, studies of folklore, nautical lexicons, historical writings, letters, novels, and miscellaneous sources, Informal English offers a captivating treasure trove of linguistic oddities that will not... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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