If you'd like to know the origins of some of our most baffling phrases, take a look at this (Daily Express)
Provides a wealth of fascinating facts about the meaning and origin of phrases we use every day... With every page guaranteed to entertain and inform, this really is the bee's knees when it comes to the perfect gift! (Lancashire Evening Post)
Reveals the origins and meanings of some of the most popular and obscure sayings we use today (Daily Mirror)
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Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the meanings of these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used. Absorbing, diverting and fascinating - as far as gift books go, Spilling the Beans really is the bee's knees!
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