Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas
Parkinson, Judy
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2013
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781782430117
- ISBN-10
- 1782430113
- Publisher
- Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
- Year
- 2013
- Publication date
- 2013-04-04
- Pages
- 192
- Dimensions
- 186x200x12
- Weight
- 156