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

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Paperback edition of the successful hardback version which has sold over 80,000 copies to date. Explores the history and context of such phrases like 'the bee's knees' and 'as keen as mustard'. If you'd like to know the origins of some of our most baffling phrases, take a look at this Daily Express Zusammenfassung How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? And what do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes? 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Judy Parkinson, Parkinson Judy
• Editore: Michael O'mara Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.04.2013
• EAN: 9781782430117
• ISBN: 978-1-78243-011-7
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 197 mm x 12 mm
• Serie: I Used to Know That
• Categorie: Libri scolastici; Narrativa > Libri regalo, album, calendari perpetui, libri di cartoline; NON-CLASSIFIABLE, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Gift books, Language: history & general works, Language: history and general works, Gift and novelty books / items