Down the River

Down the River
1st edition (publ. Dutton)

Down the River is a book by Edward Abbey, published in 1982. It is a loose collection of autobiographical and philosophical essays about the wilderness, written between 1978 and 1982.


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  • sell someone down the river — sell (someone) down the river to do something that hurts someone who trusted you. Workers complained that their leaders sold them down the river in the latest contract negotiations. Related vocabulary: sell out someone/something …   New idioms dictionary

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