Nigel Rees

Autor von Word in Your Shell-Like: 6,000 Curious and Everyday Phrases Explained

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

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

Graffiti 2 (1980) 85 Exemplare

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

Graffiti 3 (1981) 67 Exemplare

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

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

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

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

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

Cassell's Movie Quotations (2000) 44 Exemplare

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

Eavesdroppings (1981) 42 Exemplare

Graffiti 4 (1982) 42 Exemplare

Cassell Companion to Quotations (1997) 41 Exemplare

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

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Popular Phrases (1990) 32 Exemplare

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

Dictionary of Epitaphs (1993) 32 Exemplare

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

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase and Allusion (1991) 30 Exemplare

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

The Graffiti File (1900) 23 Exemplare

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

Dictionary of Phrases & Fables (1993) 21 Exemplare

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

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

Joy of Cliches (1984) 17 Exemplare

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

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

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

A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations (1987) 13 Exemplare

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

Sayings of the Century (1984) 13 Exemplare

Graffiti 5 (1986) 12 Exemplare

The Guinness Book of Humorous Anecdotes (1994) 11 Exemplare

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

Word of Mouth (1983) 11 Exemplare

Bloomsbury Treasury of Phrases (1995) 10 Exemplare

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

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

Not Tonight, Josephine (2000) — Autor — 9 Exemplare

Dictionary of Slogans (1997) 9 Exemplare

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

Bob's Your Uncle (2000) 8 Exemplare

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

Book of Slogans and Catchphrases (1984) 7 Exemplare

Foot in Mouth (1982) 7 Exemplare

The newsmakers (1987) 6 Exemplare

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

Slogans (1982) 6 Exemplare

Letter Writing (1994) 6 Exemplare

Cassell Dictionary of Cliches (1996) 6 Exemplare

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

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

Chambers Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1993) 5 Exemplare

Babes and Sucklings (1983) 5 Exemplare

Year of Graffiti (1983) 4 Exemplare

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

Encyclopedia of Phrases 3 Exemplare

A family matter (1990) 3 Exemplare

Say No More (1987) 3 Exemplare

Sixties Trivia (1985) 3 Exemplare

Quips, Slurs and Gaffes (2002) 3 Exemplare

Quips and Quotes (2003) 2 Exemplare

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

The Guinness dictionary of Jokes (1995) 2 Exemplare

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

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

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

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

The Graffiti (1984) 1 Exemplar

Year of Stings and Squelches (1985) 1 Exemplar

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

Phrases: Bloomsbury Keys (1995) 1 Exemplar

Brainbox Quiz Book (1996) 1 Exemplar

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

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

Talent (1988) 1 Exemplar

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

Showbiz Trivia (1985) 1 Exemplar

Quotable Trivia (1985) 1 Exemplar

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

THE BEST GUIDE TO QUOTATIONS 1 Exemplar

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Geburtstag: 1944-06-05
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: UK
Land (für Karte): England, UK
Geburtsort: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Wohnorte: Notting Hill, London, England, UK
Ausbildung: Merchant Taylors's School, Crosby, England, UK
Oxford University (New College)
Berufe: Broadcaster
Radio quizmaster
writer

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

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Karen74Leigh | 1 weitere Rezension | Dec 10, 2023 |

Graffiti Lives, O.K. von Nigel Rees

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

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expatscot | Sep 20, 2019 |

Graffiti 2 von 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 |