Idiomantics : the weird and wonderful world of popular phrases
Gooden, Philip2012
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'Idiomantics' is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. To cite three examples - from American English, Dutch and Italian - what on Earth are a snow job, a monkey sandwich story, and Mr Punch's secret? 'Idiomantics' explains all.
Main title:
Idiomantics : the weird and wonderful world of popular phrases / Philip Gooden and Peter Lewis.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2012.
Collation:
x, 246 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781408151440 (hbk)
Dewey class:
412
Language:
English
BRN:
1332654