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Graffiti Lives, O.K.
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The Politically Correct Phrasebook
A light-hearted look at the absurdities and controversies of modern language. It contains an A-Z section of politically correct words and phrases, and covers such topics as colour, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, beauty, proportions and mental ability.
Brewer's Famous Quotations
This collection of more than 5,000 from Oppenheimer's "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" at the explosion of the first atom bomb to the sahrp wit of Winston Churchill and the romance of the great poets. Indespensible for writers and facinating to browse, Brewer's Famous Quotations can settle any argument about who said what when.
Oops, Pardon, Mrs Arden!
A compendium of sayings that have caught on, mostly in the home, but also in informal situations. These phrases are fun ways of dealing with life's little crises and embarrassments.
Graffiti 3
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More Tea, Vicar?
Nigel Rees presents a hilarious, and sometimes rude, but always nostalgic guide to domestic catchphrases – including the familiar and the not so familiar. Following his hugely popular survey of individual family sayings, ''As We Say in Our House'', Rees returns with a closer look at domestic catchphrases in general. 'More Tea Vicar?' is a fascinating examination of those familiar phrases that we tend to trot out unthinkingly as a way of dealing with life''s little difficulties and embarrassments. As well as presenting examples of usage contributed by thousands of listeners to his ''Quote...Unquote'' radio programme, Nigel Rees attempts to explain how and from where these colourful sayings ...
A Word In Your Shell-Like
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.
A Man about a Dog
Quentin Crisp once quipped that "euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne." This leading commentator on the English language has ranged far and wide to collect and comment upon 2,467 examples of euphemistic phrases—those expressions that so inventively display the art of mincing words. From the politically correct to the highly incorrect, this book goes in ruthless pursuit of the coy, the prudish, the squeamish, the obfuscatory, and the blatant reshaping of the truth. So whether you "have to see a man about a dog" or just need to "powder your nose," this entertaining reference will show you how not to say what you mean.
Graffiti 2
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