Parkinson Judy:
Spilling The Beans On The Cat's Pyjamas
Popular Expressions - What They Mean And Where We Got Them
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback, 192 pages
Size: 198x129 mm
ISBN: 9781843173656
ISBN-10: 1843173654
List price: £9.99
You save: 30%
Spilling The Beans On The Cat's Pyjamas
How did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? Why is good health compared to a stringed instrument? ('As fit as a fiddle'). And what do pickles have to do with quandaries? This book provides us with the meanings to these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how they were first used.

