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A guide to domestic catchphrases. It examines those familiar phrases that we tend to trot out unthinkingly as a way of dealing with life's little difficulties and embarrassments. It includes numerous fobbing-off phrases used by parents to deal with children's questions ('Why?' 'Y's a crooked letter), and mangled words ('semi-skilled milk').Read More

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  • ASDA

    Nigel Rees presents a hilarious and sometimes rude but always nostalgic guide to domestic catchphrases -- including the familiar and the not so familiar.Following his hugely popular survey of individual family sayings As We Say in Our House Rees returns with a closer look at domestic catchphrases in general.

  • Blackwell

    In this nostalgic and intriguing examination of the familiar phrases that become embedded in the daily lexicons of many households, Nigel Rees attempts to explain how and from where these colorful sayings have become the common go-to phrases for...

  • 1905400748
  • 9781905400744
  • Nigel Rees
  • 9 April 2009
  • National Trust
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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