A little girl pictures the things her parents talk about, such as a chocolate moose, a gorilla war, and shoe trees.

When their parents begin saying the wrong thing every time six-year-old Sukie and her older brothers misbehave, the children discover that it is a plot and fight back with their own wrong phrases.

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A collection of everything you never knew about the wonderful phrases found in the English language. Includes phrase history and etymology; unusual, lost, or uncommon phrases; how phrases are formed; and more than 7,000 facts about common English phrases.

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