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Readers should be familiar with Robert Claiborne's earlier books, especially Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the English Language . One might say that subtitling the present book “A Book of Lost Metaphors” is an example of a loose canon [sic] — unless metaphor is taken in its broadest sense—but one is unlikely to find red herrings here: the etymologies of a few hundred words and phrases are given, many not readily findable in standard works of reference.
But these are all Red herrings, distracting from the fact that the scene is a silly vehicle for exploring Reagan's flirtation with communism.
Read about the crew’s diet of “salmagundi,” a stew of pickled herrings, meat, and eggs mixed with wine and vinegar, which served to both preserve the protein and disguise the taste.
“It's turned out to be one of those red herrings around our necks.”
The comment on square the circle in the review of Loose Cannons & Red Herrings [XV,3] misses the point when it states, “..