Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
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Author(s)Bill Beavis, Richard McCloskey
PublisherAdlard Coles
ISBN / ASIN1472907981
ISBN-139781472907981
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,538,879
CategorySports & Recreation
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Most of us never realize how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases--colorful, bizarre and surprising--and how they came ashore. For anyone with an interest in the sea & its traditions--landlubbers, boaters, historians, linguists.
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