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Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Spanning more than three centuries, Take My Word for It is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind window into the surprisingly short history of idioms in English. Widely known for his studies of word origins, Anatoly Liberman explains more than one thousand idioms, both popular and obscure, occurring in both American and British standard English and including many regional expressions"--
"Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected...
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