Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?Lulu.com, 01/02/2008 - 216 páginas A collection of essays on outmoded phrases and words we still use in everyday speech, told with the help of childhood memories, bits of Midwestern history, and liberal dashes of humor. |
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Preface | 1 |
Letting Off Steam | 16 |
A Memoir of Beans | 23 |
A Million Bucks | 37 |
Not Out of the Woods Yet | 46 |
Corny | 55 |
On Shooting Oneself in the Foot | 61 |
A Lot of Bull | 82 |
Backlog | 105 |
Over a Barrel | 114 |
Slept Like a Log | 124 |
Hog Wild | 130 |
Too Many Irons in the Fire | 140 |
Skinny as a Rail | 155 |
Till the Cows Come Home | 162 |
A Murder of Crows | 177 |
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