# Toujours Tingo

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- Authors: [Adam Jacot de Boinod](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-jacot-de-boinod)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-11-01

## Description

Why would Germans accuse you of being like the donkey getting cross with a rabbit? Who would a Spaniard tell to go and fry asparagus? And when might the French claim they are without a radish? Furthering your knowledge of the world’s unusual idioms, Toujours Tingo will also explain how ordering ‘ lamb ’ in Ethiopia may see a cow delivered to your table, and how politicians in Sweden may be encouraged occasionally to göra en hel Pudel (‘do a full poodle’) with some humble apologising. Covering such wide-ranging linguistic necessities as arguing, raising children, working and dining out, and filling all those gaps that English leaves thoughtlessly unplugged, this book’s charm would – for Russians at least – be ežiku ponjatno (obvious even to a hedgehog).

## Editions

### Toujours Tingo

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-919-5
- Published: 2007-11-01
- Language: en_GB