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This wide-ranging A-Z guide to over 1,200 popular expressions uncovers amusing origins of both traditional and modern sayings. "A picture is worth a thousand words" is historically believed to be a Chinese proverb. In reality, it appeared in the "Printer's Ink paper in 1927, where the real author credited a Chinese source "so that people would take it more seriously." Did you know that a Listerine Mouthwash commercial is to be thanked for the phrase "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride?" So go ahead, "Eat your heart out." After all, "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" 240 pages, 5 x 7 3/4.
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The Cassell dictionary of clichés, Nigel Rees
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- Année de publication
- 1999
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- Titre
- The Cassell dictionary of clichés
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Nigel Rees
- Éditeur
- Burns & Oates
- Publié
- 1999
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0304349623
- ISBN13
- 9780304349623
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Manuels, Dictionnaires et manuels de langue, Langues, Dictionnaires linguistiques, Étymologie, Dictionnaires étymologiques
- Évaluation
- 4 sur 5
- Description
- This wide-ranging A-Z guide to over 1,200 popular expressions uncovers amusing origins of both traditional and modern sayings. "A picture is worth a thousand words" is historically believed to be a Chinese proverb. In reality, it appeared in the "Printer's Ink paper in 1927, where the real author credited a Chinese source "so that people would take it more seriously." Did you know that a Listerine Mouthwash commercial is to be thanked for the phrase "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride?" So go ahead, "Eat your heart out." After all, "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" 240 pages, 5 x 7 3/4.