Cassell's dictionary of word and phrase origins
Why do we say a person is the "spitting image" of someone else, or "take a rain check"? These questions are rarely answered by conventional dictionaries, but this book takes a wide-ranging approach to problems of etymology, challenging a few long-held theories on the way.
Print Book, English, 2002
Cassell ; Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co., London, New York, 2002
Dictionaries
ix, 274 pages ; 20 cm
9780304362257, 0304362255
1001880995
Previous edition: 1996