Seeing red or tickled pink: color terms in everyday language
(2012)
By:
Ammer, Christine
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : BookBaby : Made available through hoopla, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781620957097 (electronic bk.) MWT11741732, 1620957094 (electronic bk.) 11741732
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
12 chapters cover 750 color terms in every color family, both familiar and unusual. This crayola box of expressions gives the origin of black sheep, how musicians came to sing the blues, purple prose, green thumb and greenback, orange blossoms, the black hole of Calcutta, and, of course, seeing red and tickled pink
Mode of access: World Wide Web