If you're at all interested in those phrases every language has that don't translate exactly, like "the buck stops here" or one of my personal favourites: "as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs" this might be a book you'd enjoy. It's a glossary, of sorts, categorising dif...
A book with all those phases in that you that you know, but are never sure where they came from. This cover a number of countries phrases, not just the UK and US. Some of them are very similar to phrases and naturally can be quite rude, either implied or innuendo.As a fan of language books, this was...
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