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    Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases
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    Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases

    By Andrew Thompson

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    About this ebook

    400 intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious etymological journies

    English is filled with curious, intriguing and bizarre phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 of them, including:

    • Read between the Lines
    • Cat Got Your Tongue?
    • Put a Sock in It
    • Close, but No Cigar
    • Bring Home the Bacon
    • Caught Red-Handed
    • Under the Weather
    • Raining Cats and Dogs

    Perfect for trivia and language lovers alike, this entertaining collection is the ultimate guide to understanding these baffling mini mysteries of the English language.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUlysses Press
    Release dateMar 28, 2017
    ISBN9781612436951
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    Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases
    Author

    Andrew Thompson

    Dr Andrew Thompson is a Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor at Orygen, the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the lead psychiatrist for the EPPIC early psychosis service and the National headspace Early Psychosis program in Australia and is currently head of clinical psychosis research at Orygen. He also retains a position as Associate Professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. Andrew trained in medicine at the University of Oxford and London and in psychiatry in Nottingham and Bristol. He has an MD in clinical psychiatry from the University of London. He has worked in early psychosis practice and research for over 15 years in both the UK and Australia. He was previously clinical lead for the PACE at risk for psychosis clinic in Melbourne and has been involved in a number of research projects through this clinic and through his work at the University of Bristol and the University of Warwick. Andrew’s research interests include clinical risk factors for the development of psychosis and psychotic symptoms, novel treatments (including technology) in emerging or early psychosis, predictors of outcome in early psychosis and systems of care and prevention approaches in youth mental health.

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