Salty Dog Talk : The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions

Author: Beavis, Bill

English

Published on 9 October 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Adlard Coles Nautical) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 96 pages, b/w cartoons throughout
122 x 197 x 7 | 88g

Most of us never realise how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases - colourful, bizarre and surprising - and how they came ashore.