Let's cut to the chase: cliches are a familiar part of the English language, but to be honest, many have been so over-used that they have become trite, meaningless and rather irritating. With this informative and humorous book, you are in a safe pair of hands as you learn about the origins and meanings of these phrases.
At the end of the day, when it comes to getting your head around cliches, everbody seems to be singing from the same hymn sheet. Cliches have become such a familiar part of the English language and this book looks at cliches in their many forms - once useful but overworked catch phrases (move the goal posts), worn-out sayings (all hands on dekc), and many others. Entertaining and informative, this collection of cliches is the best thing since sliced bread...
The story of the music halls that once lit up townscapes, and those that still won't die - the tales of the stars, stooges, crooks, novelty acts, demolition gangs, runaways and diehards who never gave up. Every city that was part of an empire, there were Empire and imperial music halls, vaudevilles, opera houses, theatres or fledgling cinemas filled with prestige, glamour and dreams. Two world wars later, the empires, crumbled, and the Empires and imperials in these cities were fighting dry rot and television. Many lost the fight. But some did not. "Lost Empires" explores the fates of these fallen Empires and Imperials around the world, as well as the stories of the survivors, such as the splendid St Petersburg Imperial Theatre of the 1870s and the restored Hackney Empire in east London. From Leiden's Theater-imperium to Toowomba Queensland's Empire, we see what links these places of entertainment, and what divides them.
This title presents a surprising, immediate, sometimes humbling, sometimes uplifting insight into what the British society was reading about, and thinking, during the Great War.