When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse...

Features:

• When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse There's the Devil to Pay: Seafaring Words in Everyday Speech is a salty collection of over 250 words, phrases and sayings that have become common in English usage.
• Arranged alphabetically and each entry is accompanied by a full explanation of origins and use
• Written for lovers of English and the sea
• Have you ever wondered about the origin of "son of a gun" or "flotsam and jetsam" or "hunky-dory"?
  • This book is a collection of nautical metaphors and colloquialisms
• In addition, the book includes thought-provoking and entertaining examples of these words drawn from literature, movies, and song, and contains sections of legends of the sea and weather lore
• Fascinating reading for sailors and langauge enthusiasts alike
• A couple of chapters on weather lore and sea legends, myths, and superstitions complete the text
• Here's the scuttlebutt:
  • Barge right in
  • Swallow the anchor
  • Let's chew the fat
  • Splice the main brace 'til we're three sheets to the wind
  • Listen, you son of a sea cook
  • I'm tired of minding my P's and Q's
  • I tell you, I'm all at sea
  • This is the bitter end
  • Nothing I can do will keep this ship on an even keel
  • Hells bells
  • You think I didn't tell it to the old man
  • Delivered a broadside
  • I did, but he just called me a loose cannon
  • Maybe I caught him between wind and water
  • Listen, mate
  • You'd better bootleg a bible aboard
  • We're sailing under false colors
  • Where we're headed it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
  • It's Davy Jones' locker I'm talking about.
  • The crew was scraped from the bottom of the barrel
  • They don't know the ropes
  • They're deserting like rats from a sinking ship
  • It's time to fish or cut bait mate
  • There'll be the devil to pay
  • No use flogging a dead horse
  • Let's stay armed to the teeth and look for any port in a storm
  • There'll be nothing but flotsam and jetsam when this tub goes down the hatch

Publishing Information:

• Author: Olivia A. Isil
• INT332
• ISBN-10: 0070328773
• ISBN-13: 978-0070328778
• Publish date: April 1996
• Pages: 154
• Dimensions: 7" x 7"
• Paperback
• Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press