Salty Dog Talk

Autor: Bill Beavis, Richard McCloskey

Žánr: Cizojazyčná literatura > English literature > Nonfiction > Literature and Linguistics

Most of us never realise 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 - colourful, bizarre and surprising - and how they came ashore.