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A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions
by Charles Earle Funk
Dr. Funk has taken hundreds of picturesque sayings -- such as cock-and-bull story, to have a bone to pick, the real McCoy, to fly off the handle -- that we use without thinking in our daily speech and has traced them back through the years to find the original allusions.