Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
Автор:
John Ayto, серия:
"Oxford Paperback Reference",
издатель:
"Oxford University Press, USA", ISBN:
9780199543786
Did you know that 'flavour of the month' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlours in the 1940s, when a particular flavour would be specially promoted for a month at a time? And did you know that 'off the cuff' refers to the rather