Nigel Rees

Author of Word in Your Shell-Like: 6,000 Curious and Everyday Phrases Explained

85 Works 1,580 Members 16 Reviews

About the Author

Nigel Rees is the author of over fifty books. 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, cliches, idioms and quotations

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Series

Quote... Unquote

Graffiti

Works by Nigel Rees

Graffiti 2 (1980) 86 copies, 1 review

Graffiti Lives, O.K. (1980) 86 copies, 1 review

Cassell's Dictionary Of Word And Phrase Origins (Cassell Dictionary of...) (1992) 83 copies, 1 review

Graffiti 3 (1981) 67 copies, 2 reviews

A Man About a Dog: Euphemisms and Other Examples of Verbal Squeamishness (2006) 59 copies, 1 review

Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 Quotations and the Stories Behind Them (2006) 59 copies, 1 review

Quote...Unquote: Bk. 1 (1978) 57 copies, 1 review

Cassell's Dictionary of Catchphrases: 1200 Catchphrases and Their Origins (Cassell Reference) (1994) — Author — 53 copies, 1 review

Cassell's Humorous Quotations (Cassell Reference) (1998) 51 copies

More Tea, Vicar?: An Embarrasment of Domestic Catchphrases (2001) 44 copies, 1 review

Cassell's Movie Quotations (2000) 44 copies

Cassell Companion to Quotations (1997) 43 copies

Eavesdroppings (1981) 42 copies

Graffiti 4 (1982) 42 copies

Why Do We Say...?: Words and Sayings and Where They Come from (1987) 39 copies

I Told You I Was Sick: A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs (2005) 34 copies, 3 reviews

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Popular Phrases (1990) 32 copies

Dictionary of Epitaphs (1993) 32 copies, 1 review

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase and Allusion (1991) 31 copies

The Cassell Dictionary Of Anecdotes: 1000 Entertaining Anecdotes On Themes As Diverse As Fame, Flattery And… (1999) 31 copies

Brewer's Quotations: A Phrase and Fable Dictionary (1991) 23 copies

The Graffiti File (1981) 23 copies

The Phrase That Launched 1,000 Ships (1991) 22 copies

Mark my words: Great quotations and the stories behind them (2002) 21 copies

Dictionary of Phrases & Fables (1993) 21 copies

Nigel Rees presents the "quote--unquote" book of love, death, and the universe (1980) 20 copies

Joy of Cliches (1984) 17 copies

Nudge nudge, wink wink: A quotebook of love and sex (1986) 16 copies, 1 review

All Gong and No Dinner: Home Truths and Domestic Sayings (2007) 16 copies

Sayings of the Century (1984) 14 copies

As We Say in Our House: A Book of Family Sayings (1995) 14 copies, 1 review

A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Quotations (1987) 13 copies

Very Interesting...But Stupid (1980) 13 copies

Graffiti 5 (1986) 12 copies

Don't You Know There's a War On? (2011) 12 copies

The Guinness Book of Humorous Anecdotes (1994) 11 copies

Quote...Unquote: Bk. 2 (1982) 11 copies

Word of Mouth (1983) 11 copies

Bloomsbury Treasury of Phrases (1995) 10 copies

Quote...Unquote: Bk. 3 (1983) 9 copies

Foot in Mouth (1982) 9 copies

Phrases and Sayings (Bloomsbury reference) (1997) 9 copies

Not Tonight, Josephine (2000) — Author — 9 copies

Dictionary of Slogans (1997) 9 copies

Bob's Your Uncle (2000) 8 copies

Book of Slogans and Catchphrases (1984) 7 copies

The Politically Correct Phrasebook: What They Say You Can and Cannot Say in the 1990s (1993) 7 copies

Slogans (1982) 6 copies

Why Do We Quote...? (1989) 6 copies

Letter Writing (1994) 6 copies

Cassell Dictionary of Cliches (1996) 6 copies

The newsmakers (1987) 6 copies

Best Behaviour: A Complete Guide to Manners in the 1990s (1992) 5 copies

Good manners : the complete guide to manners and etiquette in the 1990s (1994) 5 copies

Chambers Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1993) 5 copies

Babes and Sucklings (1983) 5 copies

Year of Graffiti (1983) 4 copies

A who's who of nicknames (1985) 4 copies

Bloomsbury guide to good manners : the complete guide to manners and etiquette in the 1990s (1993) 4 copies

Say No More (1987) 4 copies

Sixties Trivia (1985) 3 copies

Quips, Slurs and Gaffes (2002) 3 copies

Encyclopedia of Phrases 3 copies

A family matter (1990) 3 copies

The Gift of the Gab - A Guide to Sparkling Chat (1986) 2 copies

The Guinness dictionary of Jokes (1995) 2 copies

The Nigel Rees Book of Slogans & Catchphrases - from the World of Popular Entertainment and Advertising (1984) 2 copies

Quote Unquote: Introduced by Nigel Rees (BBC Radio Collection) (1999) 2 copies

Quips and Quotes (2003) 2 copies

Brainbox Quiz Book (1996) 2 copies

THE JOY OF CLICHE (THE BEST GUIDE TO CLICHES) (2012) 1 copy

Quote, unquote"" by Rees, Nigel (1978) 1 copy

Year of Stings and Squelches (1985) 1 copy

Graffiti Pack (1981) 1 copy

Phrases: Bloomsbury Keys (1995) 1 copy

Talent (1988) 1 copy

The Graffiti (1984) 1 copy

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LETTER WRITING (BLOOMSBURY) (1994) 1 copy

Epitaphs. A Dictionary of of Grave Epigrams and Memorial Eloquence. (1994) 1 copy

Love, death, and the universe (1981) 1 copy

Showbiz Trivia (1985) 1 copy

Quotable Trivia (1985) 1 copy

A YEAR OF BOOBS AND BLUNDERS. (1984) 1 copy

THE BEST GUIDE TO QUOTATIONS 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1944-06-05
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Country (for map): England, UK
Birthplace: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Places of residence: Notting Hill, London, England, UK
Education: Merchant Taylors's School, Crosby, England, UK
Oxford University (New College)
Occupations: Broadcaster
Radio quizmaster
writer

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Reviews

As We Say in Our House : A Book of Family Sayings by Nigel Rees

Nigel Rees is an expert on popular language and phraseology, with his own BBC Radio 4 programme Quote... Unquote. He has also appeared on Channel 4 TV's Countdown. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Almost every family has sayings that are a kind of private language and which, in many cases, continue in use across the generations. These family sayings are often impenetrable to outsiders, but there is also a rich vein of domestic catch phrase that is common to many families, and it is this that Nigel Rees celebrates in As We Say In Our House. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, but especially on family sayings that have been contributed to his BBC Radio programme Quote...Unquote, Nigel Rees provides a shamelessly nostalgic and warmly humorous record of an area of language that would otherwise go largely unrecorded. The popular expressions explored here also include personal mottoes, peculiar proverbs and nonsensical riddles.… (more)

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Karen74Leigh | Dec 10, 2023 |

Graffiti Lives, O.K. by Nigel Rees

Classic browsing fun, although maybe not quite for all the family...

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expatscot | Sep 20, 2019 |

Graffiti 2 by Nigel Rees

Maybe the best of the bunch, I almost felt that some extras had come out of the woodwork when a broader spectrum of people realised that Nigel Rees was collecting and publishing these.

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expatscot | Sep 20, 2019 |