When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse There’s the Devil to Pay

Ever wondered where the sayings ‘flogging a dead horse,’ ‘mind your Ps and Qs,’ or ‘three sheets to the wind’ came from? These colloquialisms all have nautical origins and entertaining histories. More than 200 of them are collected here and arranged alphabetically, from ‘A-One’ to ‘wishy-washy.’ Includes sections on Yarns, Legends, Superstitions of the Sea, and Weather Lore as expressed in jingles, rhymes, poetry, and song.