Laura Lee (1) (1969–)
Autor de A Child's Introduction to Ballet: The Stories, Music, and Magic of Classical Dance
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Sobre El Autor
Laura Lee is based in the metro Detroit area. She is the author of 20 books (The Name's Familiar and Bad Predictions being the least impressive). Her biggest sellers to date have been Blame it on the Rain (Harper Collins) and The Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation (Black Dog and Leventhal). In mostrar más addition to my humorous reference titles, I've written two novels and a children's book (A Child's Introduction to Ballet). I am a regular contributor to the journal The Wildean. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Laura Lee
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1969
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
Rochester, Michigan, USA
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Miembros
- 544
- Popularidad
- #45,827
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 10
- ISBNs
- 91
- Idiomas
- 6
The title is not quite accurate as the author herself confesses in the introduction. The book is broken into 80 categories of clichés, (Hope, Madness, Anger, Sex, etc.) which means there are many, many more than 80 clichés featured here. They are primarily English-origin, but every category also includes several international sayings, and whenever equivalents in other languages to a specific saying exists, she mentions them in the entry. So really, the balance feels more 50/50.
Breaking up the comprehensive listings are small breakout sections that cover a phrase more in-depth, and 1 question quizzes about foreign phrases and their meanings. Such as:
If a Dutch speaker says "It is as if an angel is pissing on your tongue." (Alsof er een engeltje over je tong piest.), what does he mean?
The meal is delicious
You speak beautifully
You are a great singer
You are lucky
Answer:
I'm quickly building a largish collection of language-origin books, so I found quite a few in this one that overlapped with others I've read lately, but my favourite still remains one that I've used for awhile, I could not have said where it came from until I read Speaking in Tongues, and it was included here too, as a favourite of the author's. It's Polish and I think it's the perfect way to say "sooo not my problem":
Not my circus, not my monkeys
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