Spilling the Beans on the Cat`s Pyjamas. Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them

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How on earth did `with bells on` come to express enthusiasm?What do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes?... And who is the face that launched a thousand ships?
Spilling the Beans on the Cat`s Pyjamas provides us with the meanings of these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used.
For example, did you know that `the rule of thumb` refers to the use of the thumb to make measurements, as th

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