Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them (I Used to Know That) - Softcover

Parkinson, Judy

 
9781782430117: Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them (I Used to Know That)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1782430113 ISBN 13: 9781782430117
Verlag: Michael O'Mara, 2013

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Judy Parkinson has worked in film and television and has written several notable biographies. She is the author of I Before E (Except After C): Old-School Ways to Remember Stuff, Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks, and Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them, all published by Michael O’Mara Books. She lives and works in London.

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Let’s not beat about the bush: the English language is littered with linguistic quirks which, on closer examination, seem barking mad.

This book explores the many colourful phrases that enhance our language, describing their origins and defining their true meanings, in an absorbing volume that really is the bee’s knees.

By the top-ten bestselling author of I Before E (Except After C)

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Verlag
Michael O'Mara
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782430113
ISBN 13 
9781782430117
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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