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Cleopatra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense, and 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance

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Cleopatra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense, and 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance [Hardcover]

Jerome Agel (Author), Walter D. Glanze (Author)

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Publication Date: August 1990

Twinkie defense? A message to Garcia? Darwin's bulldog? What exactly do these phrases mean? This absorbing cultural dictionary identifies and explains 1,200 verbal allusions, shedding light on world events as well as the verbal shorthand inherited from past generations.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 266 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; 1st edition (August 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132167972
ISBN-13: 978-0132167970
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,320,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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