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Black Sheep and Lame Ducks

Release on 2010-05-04 | by Albert Jack

In Black Sheep and Lame Ducks, Albert Jack takes readers on a journey through the curious- and often bizarre-origins of hundreds of their favorite idioms and expressions.

Black Sheep and Lame Ducks
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Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep

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Albert Jack has become something of a publishing phenomenon, clocking up hundreds of thousands of sales with his series of bestselling adventures tracing the fantastic stories behind everyday phrases (Red Herrings and White Elephants), the ...

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The Knickerbocker

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No matter , howbeit , for legends like these , Of the ' goners ' erst met here for
frolic or fray ; But speak of the Bulls and the Bears , if you please , Blue Mondays ,
Lame - Ducks , and Black Sheep of to - day . V. Pray tell us what schemes are
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The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine

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No matter , howbeit , for legends like these , Of the ' goners ' erst met here for
frolic or fray ; But speak of the Bulls and the Bears , if you please , Blue Mondays ,
Lame - Ducks , and Black Sheep of to - day . Pray tell us what schemes are now ...

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A Monetary Manual for the Million: containing an account of the rise, progress, and present position of the Bank of England, the Stock Exchange, the Joint-Stock Bank and Discount Companies; with a review of Savings' Banks, etc

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... spacious one in 1854— Conditions of Membership - Despotic authority
exercised by the Committee - How the black sheep of the body are punished—
Proclamation of “ Lame Ducks ” —The Black Board as instrument of tortureWhy it
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