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- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
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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
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1999
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
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- Título
- The Cassell dictionary of clichés
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Nigel Rees
- Editorial
- Burns & Oates
- Publicado en
- 1999
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0304349623
- ISBN13
- 9780304349623
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Libros de texto, Diccionarios y libros de texto de idiomas, Diccionarios lingüísticos, Etimología, Diccionarios etimológicos
- Calificación
- 4 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.