Who Said That First? The Curious Origins of Common Words and Phrases
Many bright minds have come up with expressions we now take for granted as part of the English language, and which we use freely in vernacular speech. But the originators of many of our most useful second-hand remarks go uncredited. The Bible and Shakespeare are rich sources of many common phrases, but this book concentrates on familiar expressions whose origins lie elsewhere. So who said it first?
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The Most Frequent English Words, Phrases & Expressions is a list of 5325 words arranged alphabetically so that they can be easily found and marked in any dictionary.This list is compiled by M.Saddam Hossain after comparing and consulting the BNC, the Brown Corpus, the GSL, the UWL, the AWL and almost every Learners' Dictionary of the market and hundreds of sites in the Internet.
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