Nigel Rees

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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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Quote... Unquote

Graffiti

Verk av Nigel Rees

Populära Nyliga

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

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

Graffiti 2 (1980) 85 exemplar

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

Graffiti 3 (1981) 67 exemplar

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

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

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

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

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

Cassell's Movie Quotations (2000) 44 exemplar

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

Eavesdroppings (1981) 42 exemplar

Graffiti 4 (1982) 42 exemplar

Cassell Companion to Quotations (1997) 40 exemplar

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

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

Dictionary of Epitaphs (1993) 32 exemplar

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Popular Phrases (1990) 31 exemplar

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

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase and Allusion (1991) 30 exemplar

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

The Graffiti File (1900) 23 exemplar

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

Dictionary of Phrases & Fables (1993) 21 exemplar

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

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

Joy of Cliches (1984) 17 exemplar

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

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

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

A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations (1987) 13 exemplar

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

Sayings of the Century (1984) 13 exemplar

Graffiti 5 (1986) 12 exemplar

The Guinness Book of Humorous Anecdotes (1994) 11 exemplar

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

Word of Mouth (1983) 11 exemplar

Bloomsbury Treasury of Phrases (1995) 10 exemplar

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

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

Not Tonight, Josephine (2000) — Författare — 9 exemplar

Dictionary of Slogans (1997) 9 exemplar

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

Bob's Your Uncle (2000) 8 exemplar

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

Book of Slogans and Catchphrases (1984) 7 exemplar

Foot in Mouth (1982) 7 exemplar

The newsmakers (1987) 6 exemplar

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

Slogans (1982) 6 exemplar

Letter Writing (1994) 6 exemplar

Cassell Dictionary of Cliches (1996) 6 exemplar

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

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

Chambers Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1993) 5 exemplar

Babes and Sucklings (1983) 5 exemplar

Year of Graffiti (1983) 4 exemplar

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

Encyclopedia of Phrases 3 exemplar

A family matter (1990) 3 exemplar

Say No More (1987) 3 exemplar

Sixties Trivia (1985) 3 exemplar

Quips, Slurs and Gaffes (2002) 3 exemplar

Quips and Quotes (2003) 2 exemplar

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

The Guinness dictionary of Jokes (1995) 2 exemplar

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

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

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

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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Födelsedag: 1944-06-05
Kön: male
Nationalitet: UK
Land (för karta): England, UK
Födelseort: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Bostadsorter: Notting Hill, London, England, UK
Utbildning: Merchant Taylors's School, Crosby, England, UK
Oxford University (New College)
Yrken: Broadcaster
Radio quizmaster
writer

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

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Karen74Leigh | 1 annan recension | Dec 10, 2023 |

Graffiti Lives, O.K. av Nigel Rees

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

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expatscot | Sep 20, 2019 |

Graffiti 2 av 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 |