Seeing Red or Tickled Pink: Color Terms in Everyday Language (Plume Books for Wordwatchers) - Softcover
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A compendium of dozens of color-related idiomatic expressions--from ""feeling blue"" to ""turning green with envy""--features sections devoted to each color family and offers the meaning and origins of each expression. 10,000 first printing.
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A compendium of color-related idiomatic expressions features a section for each color family and gives the meaning and origin of each expression.
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Seeing red or tickled pink : color terms in everyday language / Christine Ammer
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Reprint. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; viii, 215 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; English language Terms and phrases. English language Etymology. Colors, Words for. Figures of speech. English language; history. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 373476
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Seeing red or tickled pink : color terms in everyday language / Christine Ammer
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Reprint. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; viii, 215 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; English language Terms and phrases. English language Etymology. Colors, Words for. Figures of speech. English language; history. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 373476
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