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A Word in Your Shell-Like: 6,000 Curious & Everyday Phrases Explained
A Word in Your ShellLike 6000 Curious Everyday Phrases Explained
Author: Nigel Rees
An entertaining guide to the wonderful world of phrases?new and old, familiar and unfamiliar. Unravel the meaning, origin, and usage of 6,000 phrases?from books, films, idioms, euphemisms, and clichés to nicknames, slogans, and quotations. For example: Who was originally "sold down the river?" Why is an exact likeness "the spitting image?" Who o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780007220878
ISBN-10: 0007220871
Publication Date: 4/1/2007
Pages: 768
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Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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