More Tea, Vicar? - An Embarrassment of Domestic Catchphrases
by Nigel Rees

More Tea Vicar? is a nostalgic guide to domestic catchphrases including the familiar and the not so familiar, including custard boiled is custard spoiled!

Rees is examines familiar phrases that we tend to trot out unthinkingly as a way of dealing with life's little difficulties and embarrassments. He attempts to explain how and from where these colourful sayings have become the off the peg language of countless households.

This book is a treasure of informal speech and provides a warm and nostalgic record of an important part of family life.