idioms

Do you know of any book that charts the history of where idioms originally came from? - eg where did "on the face of it" originate? or "you've got the wrong end of the stick" - I am interested in find out about the origins of such idioms etc if such a book has been attempted

Thanks

Graham

[Tdol]

Here are some sites dealing with the oprigins of words, phrases, etc: http://www.usingenglish.com/links/Et...y_and_History/

And here is a site looking at the origins of idioms:
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/sayindex.htm