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Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them - I Used to Know That
Judy Parkinson
Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them - I Used to Know That
Judy Parkinson
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.
192 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Number of units | 192 |
Released | April 4, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9781782430117 |
Publishers | Michael O'Mara Books Ltd 9781782430117 |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 200 × 186 × 12 mm · 158 g |
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