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Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas

Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them

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Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas

By: Judy Parkinson
Narrated by: Kim Hicks
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You wouldn’t be ‘barking mad’ if, when asked the definition of certain phrases, ‘the cat got your tongue’ and you ‘clammed up’. Let’s not ‘beat around the bush’; the English language is littered with linguistic quirks that, on closer examination, seem utterly fantastical. In Spilling the Beans on the Cat’s Pyjamas, Judy Parkinson explores the many colourful – but rather incomprehensible – phrases that enhance our language, describing their origins and defining their true meanings.

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great if you don't already know where phrases like "out for the count" or an "eye for an eye" come from...but you probably do because you're not an idiot.

been living in a cave?

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