HUMBLE PIE AND COLD TURKEY: ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS (PB)

Language enthusiast and best-selling author Caroline Taggart browses through thousands of years of history to shed light on why we use the words and phrases we do, with themes including food, the household, childhood and romance. For example, if you rest on your laurels, you're imitating a complacent Roman general. If you eavesdrop, you're likely to get wet. If you're taken aback, you should, strictly speaking, be a sailing ship. And if you're galvanized into action, you're behaving like Frankenstein's monster.