HARDBACK EDITION, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1994* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, rubs or shelf wear to boards. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, red & blue titles to white spine strip and to face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £11.95. No shelf wear to top or bottom edges or to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawings within text.* Pages: 159 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.*Description: Almost every family has them: sayings that are a kind of private language and which, in many cases, continue in use across the generations. These family sayings are unique and are often impenetrable to outsiders. But there is also a rich vein of domestic catchphrase that is common to many families, and it is both these types of family saying that Nigel Rees celebrates in ?As We Say In Our House.?* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with some minimal age to edges in a FINE protected dust jacket.* 1994-01-01.

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Title

AS WE SAY IN OUR HOUSE A BOOK OF: A Book of Family Sayings

Publisher

Robson Books Ltd

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

0860517667

ISBN 13

9780860517665

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

y 1st. Edn. 1st. Imp.

Condition

F/F/F

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Almost every family has them: sayings that are a kind of private language and which, in many cases, continue in use across the generations. These family sayings are often impenetrable to outsiders, but there is also a rich vein of domestic catch phrase that is common to many families, and it is this that Nigel Rees celebrates in As We Say In Our House. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, but especially on family sayings that have been contributed to his BBC Radio programme Quote...Unquote, Nigel Rees provides a shamelessly nostalgic and warmly humorous record of an area of language that would otherwise go largely unrecorded. The popular expressions explored here also include personal mottoes, peculiar proverbs and nonsensical riddles.

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Nigel Rees is an expert on popular language and phraseology, with his own BBC Radio 4 programme Quote... Unquote. He has also appeared on Channel 4 TV's Countdown.

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