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A Word in Your Shell-Like: 6,000 Curious & Everyday Phrases Explained - Softcover

Rees, Nigel

 
9780007220878: A Word in Your Shell-Like: 6,000 Curious & Everyday Phrases Explained
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0007220871 ISBN 13: 9780007220878
Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS 360, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

An entertaining guide to the wonderful world of phrases?new and old, familiar and unfamiliar. Unravel the meaning, origin, and usage of 6,000 phrases?from books, films, idioms, euphemisms, and clichés to nicknames, slogans, and quotations. For example: Who was originally "sold down the river?" Why is an exact likeness "the spitting image?" Who originally coined the term "compassion fatigue?" The author should put a "feather in his cap" for compiling this delightfully informative guide?it's a must for anyone who likes to dabble in our language's rich heritage.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nigel Rees is a leading authority on the use of well-known phrases and sayings. As a broadcaster, he is best-known as the deviser and presenter of BBC Radio's Quote…Unquote.As an author, he has written many books devoted to quotations and aspects of the popular use of the English language, always emphasizing the humour in his subject.

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Verlag
HARPERCOLLINS 360
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0007220871
ISBN 13 
9780007220878
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
768
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Simone Casetta
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