Nigel Rees

Autore di Word in Your Shell-Like: 6,000 Curious and Everyday Phrases Explained

84 opere 1,554 membri 18 recensioni

Sull'Autore

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

Comprende il nome: Nigel Rees

Comprende anche: Rees (2)

Serie

Quote... Unquote

Graffiti

Opere di Nigel Rees

Popolari Recenti

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

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

Graffiti 2 (1980) 85 copie

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

Graffiti 3 (1981) 67 copie

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

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

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

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

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

Cassell's Movie Quotations (2000) 44 copie

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

Eavesdroppings (1981) 42 copie

Graffiti 4 (1982) 42 copie

Cassell Companion to Quotations (1997) 41 copie

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

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

Dictionary of Epitaphs (1993) 32 copie

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Popular Phrases (1990) 31 copie

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

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase and Allusion (1991) 30 copie

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

The Graffiti File (1900) 23 copie

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

Dictionary of Phrases & Fables (1993) 21 copie

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

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

Joy of Cliches (1984) 17 copie

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

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

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

A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations (1987) 13 copie

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

Sayings of the Century (1984) 13 copie

Graffiti 5 (1986) 12 copie

The Guinness Book of Humorous Anecdotes (1994) 11 copie

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

Word of Mouth (1983) 11 copie

Bloomsbury Treasury of Phrases (1995) 10 copie

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

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

Not Tonight, Josephine (2000) — Autore — 9 copie

Dictionary of Slogans (1997) 9 copie

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

Bob's Your Uncle (2000) 8 copie

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

Book of Slogans and Catchphrases (1984) 7 copie

Foot in Mouth (1982) 7 copie

The newsmakers (1987) 6 copie

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

Slogans (1982) 6 copie

Letter Writing (1994) 6 copie

Cassell Dictionary of Cliches (1996) 6 copie

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

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

Chambers Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1993) 5 copie

Babes and Sucklings (1983) 5 copie

Year of Graffiti (1983) 4 copie

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

Encyclopedia of Phrases 3 copie

A family matter (1990) 3 copie

Say No More (1987) 3 copie

Sixties Trivia (1985) 3 copie

Quips, Slurs and Gaffes (2002) 3 copie

Quips and Quotes (2003) 2 copie

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

The Guinness dictionary of Jokes (1995) 2 copie

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

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

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

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

The Graffiti (1984) 1 copia

Year of Stings and Squelches (1985) 1 copia

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

Phrases: Bloomsbury Keys (1995) 1 copia

Brainbox Quiz Book (1996) 1 copia

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

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

Talent (1988) 1 copia

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

Showbiz Trivia (1985) 1 copia

Quotable Trivia (1985) 1 copia

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

THE BEST GUIDE TO QUOTATIONS 1 copia

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Aneddoto (8) Antologia (6) Catchphrases (18) Cimitero (4) Citazione (87) Commedia (15) consultazione (139) da leggere (6) dizionari (31) Dizionario (51) epitaphs (5) Etimologia (24) Eufemismo (4) Film (5) Graffitismo (21) Graves (4) Inglese (19) letto (5) Libro tascabile (4) Lingua inglese (35) Linguaggio (72) Linguistica (8) miscellany (5) Morte (5) Narrativa (5) non letto (4) origini (10) parole (9) phrases (10) Reference - Dictionary (4) Saggistica (87) Scrittura (6) slogans (5) Storia (6) Sydney (5) Talen (9) trivia (5) Umorismo (155) WIT (5) words language and linguistics (12)

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1944-06-05
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: UK
Nazione (per mappa): England, UK
Luogo di nascita: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Luogo di residenza: Notting Hill, London, England, UK
Istruzione: Merchant Taylors's School, Crosby, England, UK
Oxford University (New College)
Attività lavorative: Broadcaster
Radio quizmaster
writer

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As We Say in Our House : A Book of Family Sayings di 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.… (altro)

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Karen74Leigh | 1 altra recensione | Dec 10, 2023 |

Graffiti Lives, O.K. di Nigel Rees

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

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expatscot | Sep 20, 2019 |

Graffiti 2 di 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 |