September 28, 2009
I found an interesting book called ‘Red Herrings and White Elephants’ written by the erudite Albert Jack. The reason why I like this book is because it gives you a short description of the origins of some of the phrases we use everyday. ‘To lick into shape’, we often say this to mean that something [...]
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June 25, 2009
According to Albert Jack, author of ‘Red Herrings and White Elephants’, the phrase ‘to read between the lines’ originated when cryptography was a new and fashionable way of passing coded messages. One trick was to place the real message on alternate lines and then writing an unrelated story to hide the true flow of the [...]
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