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

Parkinson, Judy

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ISBN 10: 1782430113 ISBN 13: 9781782430117

Casa editrice: Michael O'Mara, 2013

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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)

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Michael O'Mara
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782430113
• ISBN 13: 9781782430117
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: Michael O'Mara Books; enquiries@mombooks.com; ; 9 Lion Yard, Tremadoc Road; London; SW4 7NQ; Regno Unito
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