: Judy Parkinson
: Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas
: Michael O' Mara Books
: 9781843176671
: 1
: CHF 10.70
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: Ratgeber
: English
How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? Why is good health compared to a small stringed instrument? ('As fit as a fiddle.') And what do pickles have to do with quandaries?", Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas", provides us with the meanings to these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used.