Book Description
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1315 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134929986
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
Author : Douglas J Alford
Publisher : Mfg Application Konsulting Engr
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release :
Category : Study Aids
ISBN :
Practice your English with idioms. This book shows where English Catch Phrases Come From. What is interesting about them? How are they used today? Why do we ‘hear from grapevines’; ‘put a sock in it’ and ‘have computers bugs’ and much more? This book is the skillful way to understand English using catchy fun phrases with Thai Translations.
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : 0812885368
Author : Jon Kabat-Zinn
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 030683202X
Find quiet reflective moments in your life—and reduce your stress levels drastically—with this classic bestselling guide updated and featuring a new introduction and afterword. When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over 1 million copies to date. Thirty years later, Wherever You Go, There You Are remains a foundational guide to mindfulness and meditation, introducing readers to the practice and guiding them through the process. The author of over half a dozen books on mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn combines his research and medical background with his spiritual knowledge to help readers find peace and change their lives. In this new edition, readers will find a new introduction and afterword from Kabat-Zinn, as well as factual updates throughout to address changes in research and knowledge since it was originally published. After the special tumult of the last few years, as well as the promise of more unrest in the future, Wherever You Go, There You Are serves as an anchor for a whole new generation of readers looking to find their center and achieve their true self.
Author : Rosalind Fergusson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134856067
This collection will appeal to everyone who has ever wondered about the origin of phrases like "all part of life's rich pattern" and "long time no see". It covers a wide range of catch phrases in current use in all parts of the English-speaking world. Most entries are drawn from the second edition of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases (second edition, edited by Paul Beale), but have been completely rewritten in the light of recent research, and there are many additions. Catch Phrases include: close your eyes and think of England! have I got news for you! ... refreshes the parts that other ... cannot reach some mothers do'ave'em! you are awful, but I like you.
Author : Nigel Rees
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 000737349X
Unravel the meaning, origin, and usage of over 6,000 phrases from book and film titles, idioms and cliches, to nicknames, slogans and quotations with this modern and entertaining guide to wonderful phrases by one of the world’s best-known wordsmiths.
Author : Sarah Churchwell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1541673425
A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2018 The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands for In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases -- the "American dream" and "America First" -- that once embodied opposing visions for America. Starting as a Republican motto before becoming a hugely influential isolationist slogan during World War I, America First was always closely linked with authoritarianism and white supremacy. The American dream, meanwhile, initially represented a broad vision of democratic and economic equality. Churchwell traces these notions through the 1920s boom, the Depression, and the rise of fascism at home and abroad, laying bare the persistent appeal of demagoguery in America and showing us how it was resisted. At a time when many ask what America's future holds, Behold, America is a revelatory, unvarnished portrait of where we have been.
Author : Douglas J Alford
Publisher : Mfg Application Konsulting Engr
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release :
Category : Study Aids
ISBN :
Computers seem so complex but the basics are very easy to understand. This book shows how: e-pulses flow; lights glow and magnets stow. See inside the patterns of digital data that empower our lives.
Author : Douglas J Alford
Publisher : Mfg Application Konsulting Engr
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release :
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Birds flap and find a way to fly. They are able to control their wings to push up and go forward. With airplanes, humans are able to fly too. The materials used to make planes, sink in water. With jet engines and streamlined shapes, magically, all the heavier than air parts of the plane are able, together ,to get us airborne. Our feet are no longer gravity-glued to the ground. We Earth-Lings are now Sky-Lings. Airplane wings still have wing parts called flaps.
Author : Douglas J Alford
Publisher : Mfg Application Konsulting Engr
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release :
Category : Study Aids
ISBN :
How did we go from watching birds flapping their wings to flying ourselves? This book highlights this off-the-earth adventure. With jet engines and curved wings, we earthlings become airborne. Our feet are no longer gravity-glued to the ground. We are Sky-Lings now!