Rating: 
Summary: Pretty obvious stuff
Review: This book appears to be a hastily thrown together batch of expressions, very few of which strike me as regional. For example, do we need Mr. Bonds to tell us that "flustered" means frustrated, "fly off the handle" means to become angry, or to "follow" something is to understand it? Of the nine or ten entries on each page, no more than three of them are particularly southern, and even those are pretty durn obvious. I bought this book when I was researching southern expressions, and found it less colorful than web pages available for free on the internet....
Rating:
Summary: Pretty obvious stuff
Review: This book appears to be a hastily thrown together batch of expressions, very few of which strike me as regional. For example, do we need Mr. Bonds to tell us that "flustered" means frustrated, "fly off the handle" means to become angry, or to "follow" something is to understand it? Of the nine or ten entries on each page, no more than three of them are particularly southern, and even those are pretty durn obvious. I bought this book when I was researching southern expressions, and found it less colorful than web pages available for free on the internet....
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