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Linguistics, Two Birds One Stone Pippa Mentzel, Columnist Linguistics, Two Birds One Stone Pippa Mentzel, Columnist

Two Birds with One Stone II - Full of Beanz

Columnist Pippa Mentzel explores the brilliant and bizarre linguistic phenomena of idioms to uncover what they show us about our cultural heritage and how our imaginative human mind revels in describing the world around us. In the second instalment, Pippa talks us through the origins and usages of two bean-related idioms.

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