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Nigel Rees is the author of over 50 books, including the CASSELL DICTIONARY OF HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS and the CASSELL COMPANION TO QUOTATIONS. 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, clichés, idioms and quotations.
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- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0304362255
- ISBN 13 9780304362257
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- Number of pages274
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