Holy Cow! (eBook)

Doggerel, Catnaps, Scapegoats, Foxtrots, and Horse Feathers-Splendid Animal Words and Phrases

Boze Hadleigh (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
320 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63220-952-8 (ISBN)

Infos

We love animals but insult humans by calling them everything from weasels or pigs to sheep, mice, chickens, sharks, snakes, and bird-brains. Animal epithets, words, and phrases are so widespread we often take them for granted or remain ignorant of the fascinating stories and facts behind them.Spanning the entire animal kingdom, Holy Cow! explains: Why hot dogs are named after canines. Why people talk turkey or go cold turkey. Why curiosity killed the cat, although dogs are more curious about us. Why letting the cat out of the bag originally referred to a duped shopper. What a horse of another color is, what horsefeathers politely alludes to, why a mule is a ladys slipper, and what horseradish has to do with horses. Why the combination of humans and cows probably led to capitalismits name from Latin for head, as in heads of cows. Why holy cow and sacred cow have almost opposite meanings. Whether people actually chewed the fat or ate crow (and why its a crowbar). How a hog became a motorcycle and a chick a young woman. What happens to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. What buck has to do with being naked. Why the birds and the bees. Why a piggy bank and why one feeds the kitty. What lame ducks have to do with U.S. presidents. How red herring came about via activists opposed to fox hunting. Where snake oil, popular in the 1800s and rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, came from. That the proverbial fly in the ointment goes back to the Bibles Ecclesiastes (10:1). How Swiss watchmakers created teensy-weensy coaches for fleas to pull in flea circuses. And muchmuch!more. Don't be a lame duck and get this book!

Autor

Boze Hadleigh, author of Celebrity Feuds! and Hollywood and Whine, has written more than 15 books. He holds a master's degree in journalism, speaks five languages, and has been a winner on Jeopardy! Boze also writes extensively for magazines, and his work has appeared in more than 100 publications including TV Guide, Playboy, and Us. The author splits his time, when not traveling the world, between Beverly Hills and Sydney, Australia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.5.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Australia • Bats • beeswax • Bitch • books on bats • books on beeswaxes • books on bitches • books on canards • books on canines • books on chamois • books on cows • books on crows • books on doghouses • books on expressions • books on frankfurters • books on hamburgers • books on kennels • books on latins • books on liquors • books on lyrics • books on mangers books on insults • books on mongrel • books on mutt • books on nicknames • books on sausages • books on sheep • books on slangs • books on towels • books on underdogs • books on upstarts • books on wiener • Britain • Canard • canines • chamois • clotheshorse • Cows • Crow • denoted • doghouse • dogrib • dog-tired • England • epithets • Expressions • frankfurters • hamburgers • hangdog • harkens • insult • invariably • kennel • Latin • Liquor • lyric • Manger • Mongrel • mutt • Nickname • Quack • Sausage • Sheep • signified • Slang • slotted • towel • Underdog • United States • Upstart • Wiener
• ISBN-10: 1-63220-952-7 / 1632209527
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63220-952-8 / 9781632209528