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

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)
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ISBN 10: 1782430113 ISBN 13: 9781782430117
Editorial: Michael O'Mara, 2013

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del 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.

De la contraportada

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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Editorial
Michael O'Mara
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1782430113
ISBN 13 
9781782430117
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
192
Contacto del fabricante
Michael O'Mara Books
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9781843173656: Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them

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ISBN 10:  1843173654 ISBN 13:  9781843173656
Editorial: Michael O'Mara, 2009
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