The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors

The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors

A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms

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Publisher Description

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 (horse racing). Filled with pithy entries on each idiom, plus quotes showing how big talkers from President Obama to rapper Ice-T use them, this quirky little handbook from former minor league ballplayer and award-winning journalist Josh Chetwynd is sure to be a conversation starter at tailgates, cocktail parties, and in the boardroom.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2016
May 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
14.1
MB

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