Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions: What They Mean and Where We Got Them
by Judy Parkinson | Entertainment | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1843173654 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1843173654 Global Overview for this book
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I bought this in a second- hand-shop to be released.
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How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? What do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes? And who is the face that launched a thousand ships? Did you know that 'the rule of thumb' refers to the use of the thumb to make measurements, as the first joint of the average adult thumb measures one inch?
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. Absorbing, diverting and fascinating - as far as gift books go, Spilling the Beans really is the bee's knees!
From Amazon.
How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? What do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes? And who is the face that launched a thousand ships? Did you know that 'the rule of thumb' refers to the use of the thumb to make measurements, as the first joint of the average adult thumb measures one inch?
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. Absorbing, diverting and fascinating - as far as gift books go, Spilling the Beans really is the bee's knees!
I mailed this from the postoffice yesterday. It´s on the way to Belarus.
Thank you very much for the book and nice stamps on the envelope!
Thank you very much for this unexpexcted gift! It sounds very much my kind of book and I'm sure looking foreward to reading about some rather puzzling expressions!
