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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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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1999
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- Titel
- The Cassell dictionary of clichés
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Nigel Rees
- Verlag
- Burns & Oates
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1999
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0304349623
- ISBN13
- 9780304349623
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Lehrbücher, Sprachbücher & -lexika, Sprachen, Sprachwörterbücher, Etymologie, Etymologische Wörterbücher
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- Beschreibung
- 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.