Every language has its idiosyncrasies that makes it just a tiny bit more difficult to understand if you are not a native speaker. Is that because some people experience schadenfreude when witnessing others garble common sayings? Perhaps it is a universal weltschmertz (world pain)? Or maybe just a need to create a book that explains colloquialisms from across the globe so you can use them in everyday conversation. So, Bob's your uncle, Christopher Moore created In Other Words: An Illustrated Miscellany of the Worlds Most Intriguing Words and Phrases to fill that gap.
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