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Author:
Heos, Bridget.
Title:
Cool as a cucumber : and other expressions about food / Bridget Heos ; illustrated by Aaron Blecha.
Publisher:
Lerner Publications Co.,
Copyright Date:
c2013
Description:
32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Subject:
English language--Idioms--Juvenile literature.
Food--Juvenile literature.
Figures of speech--Juvenile literature.
Other Authors:
Blecha, Aaron.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-32) and index.
Contents:
Salt of the Earth -- Egg on your face -- Bring home the bacon -- The peanut gallery -- Couch potato -- In a pickle -- Apple of my eye -- Peaches and cream -- Cool as a cucumber -- Red herring -- Gravy train -- Take the cake -- Pie in the sky.
Summary:
Explores a variety of food related idioms and figures out what people really mean when they use them.
Series:
It's just an expression.
ISBN:
076137888X (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
9780761378884 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)759491833
Locations:
JNPC081 -- Leonard A. Good Community Library (Ogden)

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