Cleopatra's Nose: The Twinkie Defense, and 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance by Jerome Agel, Walter D. Glanze

Cleopatra's Nose: The Twinkie Defense, and 1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance

Jerome Agel, Walter D. Glanze

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Twinkie defense? A message to Garcia? Darwin's bulldog? What exactly do these phrases mean? This absorbing cultural dictionary identifies and explains 1,200 verbal allusions, shedding light on world events as well as the verbal shorthand inherited...

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