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Seeing Red or Tickled Pink

By Christine Ammer

Release : 2012-04-15

Genre : Reference, Books

Kind : ebook

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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.

Seeing Red or Tickled Pink

By Christine Ammer

Release : 2012-04-15

Genre : Reference, Books

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
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.

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