Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them - Hardcover

Buch 9 von 20: I Used to Know That Book

Parkinson, Judy

 
9781843173656: Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1843173654 ISBN 13: 9781843173656
Verlag: Michael O'Mara Publications, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? Why is good health compared to a small stringed instrument? ('As fit as a fiddle.') And what do pickles have to do with quandaries? Let's not beat about the bush: despite the fact that we have all used these phrases at one time or another, and even enjoyed expressing them, they are in truth - when you take a moment to consider them - completely senseless and utterly fantastical. We all know what somebody means when they use these phrases due to our common knowledge of them, but it wouldn't be surprising if, when asked to explain them, you found that the cat had got your tongue, or you simply clammed up! Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the meanings to 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 Christmas gifts go, Spilling the Beans really is the bee's knees!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Judy Parkinson is the author of i before e (except after c) and Elton: Made in England.

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Verlag
Michael O'Mara Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1843173654
ISBN 13 
9781843173656
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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