A Hog On Ice, by Charles Earle Funk

Summary: This book gives the origins and history of a variety of expressions (such as the one that appears in the title)

Comments: This was a good book for reading on airplanes and such because I could read the section on some phrase, look to see if something interesting was going on outside, and return to my book if not, without interrupting my train of thought. One thing I should say is that the book was originally published in 1948, so you have to keep that in mind when the author talks about certain phrases being recent or makes reference to the last ten years or anything like that. There was a certain number of phrases I had never heard, but I guess that kinda proves his point that the expressions in common usage change over the years, and the ones I'm familiar with aren't necessarily the same as the ones that were in usage 60 years ago.