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

ISBN-13: 9781782430117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 192 str.

Judy Parkinson

Opis

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? This title provides us with the meanings of these phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used.