[Download] The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors: A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms
❀ Josh Chetwynd ❀
| #826797 in Books | 2016-05-10 | 2016-05-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.20 x.80 x4.60l,.59 | File Name: 1607748118 | 224 pages
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A gift-worthy playbook of common and unexpected words and idioms that have their roots in sports and games.
There are many metaphors we can quickly identify from the realm of sports: covering all the bases (baseball), game plan (football), and par for the course (golf). But the English language is also peppered with the not-so-obvious influence of sports and games, such as go-to guy (basketball) and dead ringer...
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