Nigel Rees Word In Your Shell-Like, A 9780007220878

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Автор: Nigel Rees
Название: Word In Your Shell-Like, A
ISBN: 9780007220878
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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ISBN-10: 0007220871
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 768
Вес: 0.72 кг.
Дата издания: 02.05.2006
Серия: General reference
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Illustrations
Размер: 19.76 x 16.26 x 5.28 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: This is a modern and entertaining guide to the wonderful world of phrases, familiar and unfamiliar. A Word in your Shell-Like is the ideal replacement or complement to that tatty old copy of Brewers most of us have about the house: a modern, entertaining guide to the wonderful world of phrases, familiar and unfamiliar, a landmark publication by onf the key world authorities in English language reference. It is an entirely phrase-based book, exploring well-known phrases - catchphrases, slogans, idioms, cliches, nicknames, titles of books and films, and quotations. The articles contain discussion of meaning, origin and usage. Sample entries include: but, miss - youre beautiful without your glasses, I must go down to the seas again, small, but perfectly formed, sold down the river abhors a vacuum, all dressed up and nowhere to go, and when did you last see your father? Anglo-Saxon attitudes, another meal the Germans wont have, What did you do in the Great War, Daddy? by Grand Central Station I sat down and wept, and Burlington Bertie. Few other word reference books are likely to increase your store of knowledge with such fun: find out of whom it was said: he couldnt chew gum and fart at the same time, who the catcher in the rye was, and what it means to be caught between wind and water. in your shell-like (ear). Phrase used when asking to have a quiet word with someone: (Let me have a word) in your ear is all it means, but it makes gentle fun of a poetic simile. Thomas Hoods Biancas Dream (1827) has: Her small and shell-like ear. The Complete Naff Guide (1983) has a word in your shell-like ear among naff things schoolmasters say.

Word In Your Shell-Like, A, Nigel Rees