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Toujours Tingo: More Extraordinary Words to Change the Way We See the World

✍ Scribed by de Boinod, Adam Jacot

Book ID
108659415
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2007
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780141919195

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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 g�ra 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 e�iku ponjatno (obvious even to a hedgehog).

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