All Gong and No Dinner: Home Truths and Domestic Sayings - Hardcover

Rees, Nigel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007249357 ISBN 13: 9780007249350

Publisher: HarperCollins UK, 2007

Synopsis

Over the last 30 years, hundreds of thousands of listeners of Quote...Unquote have written to Nigel Rees to share informal sayings from everyday life. These have taken the form of domestic catchphrases, family sayings (often unique to a particular family), household words, rhymes, old wives' sayings, and proverbial wisdom. Often they were accompanied by a request as to whether anybody else knew of them. Nigel Rees has searched for the origins of hundreds of these conversation clippings, which together form the basis of the book. Illustrating every aspect of domestic life, from phrases to describe our less respectable neighbors, to the 'nannyisms' we heard as a child, they are guaranteed to raise a smile.

About this title

About the Author:

Nigel Rees is one of the UK’s most prestigious wordsmiths, and is regarded as one of the world authorities on English usage. He is the author of over 50 reference books. His Radio 4 show Quote...Unquote is one of the longest running quiz shows in the world and his newsletter has a wide and influential circulation.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0007249357
• ISBN 13: 9780007249350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672