Watch Your Tongue - What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean
In Watch Your Tongue, award winning author Mark Abley explores the phrases, idioms, and clichés of our everyday language. With wit and subtle wisdom, he unravels the mysteries of these expressions, illuminating the history, tradition and stories behind everything we say.
Pulling examples from Shakespeare plays to sports team names, ancient Rome to Twitter, Abley shares samples and anecdotes of the eccentric ways that we play with, parse, and pattern language.
