7 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRING SOMETHING TO ITS KNEES»
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bring something to its knees in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare
... large corporations to be on its last legs: a decadent aristocracy on its last legs
bring something to its knees: losses that have brought the company to its knees
to be a death blow: it would be a death blow to Newtonian physics death knell:
the ...
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Tradition and Postmodernity: English and American Studies ...
Additionally, in the case of this pair, we can adduce here another English
idiomatic structure, namely to bring something to its knees, which means 'to
render something weak, inefficient, paralysed'. Another pair is jump out of one's
skin vs.
Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld, 2000
3
Once More, with Feeling: How We Tried to Make the Greatest ...
They set off at once. This is the extraordinary and hilarious story of their journey from a sofa in North London, through the heart of the sex industry in California, to their own film set in Amsterdam.
Victoria Coren, Charlie Skelton, 2002
4
Wellington: The Iron Duke
The Duke of Wellington s remarkable life and extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes superb skill in this compelling book.
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The Disposal of the Living
In this tart and witty updating of the traditional English village mystery, 'the chameleon talent of Mr Barnard' (Sunday Times) is demonstrated once again through that sharp ear and eye that led the Washington Post to exclaim: 'One of the ...
This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the ...
