Nigel Rees

Auteur de Word in Your Shell-Like: 6,000 Curious and Everyday Phrases Explained

84 oeuvres 1,554 utilisateurs 18 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Nigel Rees is the author of over fifty books. He is the deviser and presenter of BBC Radio's Quote ... Unquote, through which he has become an authority on the popular use of language in slogans, catchphrases, cliches, idioms and quotations

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Quote... Unquote

Graffiti

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Word in Your Shell-Like: 6,000 Curious and Everyday Phrases Explained (2004) 93 exemplaires

Graffiti Lives, O.K. (1979) 86 exemplaires

Graffiti 2 (1980) 85 exemplaires

Cassell's Dictionary Of Word And Phrase Origins (Cassell Dictionary of...) (1992) 84 exemplaires

Graffiti 3 (1981) 67 exemplaires

A Man About a Dog: Euphemisms and Other Examples of Verbal Squeamishness (2006) 58 exemplaires

Quote...Unquote: Bk. 1 (1978) 58 exemplaires

Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 Quotations and the Stories Behind Them (2006) 56 exemplaires

Cassell's Dictionary of Catchphrases: 1200 Catchphrases and Their Origins (Cassell Reference) (1994) — Auteur — 52 exemplaires

Cassell's Humorous Quotations (Cassell Reference) (1998) 48 exemplaires

Cassell's Movie Quotations (2000) 44 exemplaires

More Tea, Vicar?: An Embarrasment of Domestic Catchphrases (2001) 43 exemplaires

Eavesdroppings (1981) 42 exemplaires

Graffiti 4 (1982) 42 exemplaires

Cassell Companion to Quotations (1997) 41 exemplaires

Why Do We Say...?: Words and Sayings and Where They Come from (1987) 39 exemplaires

I Told You I Was Sick: A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs (2005) 32 exemplaires

Dictionary of Epitaphs (1993) 32 exemplaires

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Popular Phrases (1990) 31 exemplaires

The Cassell Dictionary Of Anecdotes: 1000 Entertaining Anecdotes On Themes As Diverse As Fame, Flattery And… (1999) 31 exemplaires

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase and Allusion (1991) 30 exemplaires

Brewer's Quotations: A Phrase and Fable Dictionary (1991) 23 exemplaires

The Graffiti File (1900) 23 exemplaires

The Phrase That Launched 1,000 Ships (1991) 22 exemplaires

Dictionary of Phrases & Fables (1993) 21 exemplaires

Mark my words: Great quotations and the stories behind them (2002) 21 exemplaires

Nigel Rees presents the "quote--unquote" book of love, death, and the universe (1980) 20 exemplaires

Joy of Cliches (1984) 17 exemplaires

Nudge nudge, wink wink: A quotebook of love and sex (1986) 16 exemplaires

All Gong and No Dinner: Home Truths and Domestic Sayings (2007) 16 exemplaires

As We Say in Our House: A Book of Family Sayings (1995) 14 exemplaires

A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations (1987) 13 exemplaires

Very Interesting...But Stupid (1980) 13 exemplaires

Sayings of the Century (1984) 13 exemplaires

Graffiti 5 (1986) 12 exemplaires

The Guinness Book of Humorous Anecdotes (1994) 11 exemplaires

Quote...Unquote: Bk. 2 (1982) 11 exemplaires

Word of Mouth (1983) 11 exemplaires

Bloomsbury Treasury of Phrases (1995) 10 exemplaires

Quote...Unquote: Bk. 3 (1983) 9 exemplaires

Don't You Know There's a War On? (2011) 9 exemplaires

Not Tonight, Josephine (2000) — Auteur — 9 exemplaires

Dictionary of Slogans (1997) 9 exemplaires

Phrases and Sayings (Bloomsbury reference) (1997) 9 exemplaires

Bob's Your Uncle (2000) 8 exemplaires

The Politically Correct Phrasebook: What They Say You Can and Cannot Say in the 1990s (1993) 7 exemplaires

Book of Slogans and Catchphrases (1984) 7 exemplaires

Foot in Mouth (1982) 7 exemplaires

The newsmakers (1987) 6 exemplaires

Why Do We Quote...? (1989) 6 exemplaires

Slogans (1982) 6 exemplaires

Letter Writing (1994) 6 exemplaires

Cassell Dictionary of Cliches (1996) 6 exemplaires

Best Behaviour: A Complete Guide to Manners in the 1990s (1992) 5 exemplaires

Good manners : the complete guide to manners and etiquette in the 1990s (1994) 5 exemplaires

Chambers Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1993) 5 exemplaires

Babes and Sucklings (1983) 5 exemplaires

Year of Graffiti (1983) 4 exemplaires

A who's who of nicknames (1985) 4 exemplaires

Encyclopedia of Phrases 3 exemplaires

A family matter (1990) 3 exemplaires

Say No More (1987) 3 exemplaires

Sixties Trivia (1985) 3 exemplaires

Quips, Slurs and Gaffes (2002) 3 exemplaires

Quips and Quotes (2003) 2 exemplaires

Quote Unquote: Introduced by Nigel Rees (BBC Radio Collection) (1999) 2 exemplaires

The Guinness dictionary of Jokes (1995) 2 exemplaires

Bloomsbury guide to good manners : the complete guide to manners and etiquette in the 1990s (1993) 2 exemplaires

The Gift of the Gab - A Guide to Sparkling Chat (1986) 2 exemplaires

The Nigel Rees Book of Slogans & Catchphrases - from the World of Popular Entertainment and Advertising (1984) 2 exemplaires

Quote, unquote"" by Rees, Nigel (1978) 1 exemplaire

The Graffiti (1984) 1 exemplaire

Year of Stings and Squelches (1985) 1 exemplaire

THE JOY OF CLICHE (THE BEST GUIDE TO CLICHES) (2012) 1 exemplaire

Phrases: Bloomsbury Keys (1995) 1 exemplaire

Brainbox Quiz Book (1996) 1 exemplaire

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LETTER WRITING (BLOOMSBURY) (1994) 1 exemplaire

Epitaphs. A Dictionary of of Grave Epigrams and Memorial Eloquence. (1994) 1 exemplaire

Talent (1988) 1 exemplaire

Love, death, and the universe (1981) 1 exemplaire

Showbiz Trivia (1985) 1 exemplaire

Quotable Trivia (1985) 1 exemplaire

A YEAR OF BOOBS AND BLUNDERS. (1984) 1 exemplaire

THE BEST GUIDE TO QUOTATIONS 1 exemplaire

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Date de naissance: 1944-06-05
Sexe: male
Nationalité: UK
Pays (pour la carte): England, UK
Lieu de naissance: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Lieux de résidence: Notting Hill, London, England, UK
Études: Merchant Taylors's School, Crosby, England, UK
Oxford University (New College)
Professions: Broadcaster
Radio quizmaster
writer

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As We Say in Our House : A Book of Family Sayings par Nigel Rees

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Almost every family has 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.… (plus d'informations)

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Karen74Leigh | 1 autre critique | Dec 10, 2023 |

Graffiti Lives, O.K. par Nigel Rees

Classic browsing fun, although maybe not quite for all the family...

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expatscot | Sep 20, 2019 |

Graffiti 2 par Nigel Rees

Maybe the best of the bunch, I almost felt that some extras had come out of the woodwork when a broader spectrum of people realised that Nigel Rees was collecting and publishing these.

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expatscot | Sep 20, 2019 |