Adam Jacot de Boinod

Toujours Tingo (eBook, ePUB)

Extraordinary Words to Change the Way We See the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why would Germans accuse you of being like the donkey getting cross with a rabbit? Who would a Spaniard tell to go and fry asparagus? And when might the French claim they are without a radish?

Furthering your knowledge of the world's unusual idioms, Toujours Tingo will also explain how ordering 'lamb' in Ethiopia may see a cow delivered to your table, and how politicians in Sweden may be encouraged occasionally to göra en hel Pudel ('do a full poodle') with some humble apologising. Covering such wide-ranging linguistic necessities as arguing, raising children, working and dining out, and filling all those gaps that English leaves thoughtlessly unplugged, this book's charm would - for Russians at least - be eziku ponjatno (obvious even to a hedgehog).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141919195
• Artikelnr.: 38149399