# Shoot the Puppy

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- Book: [Shoot the Puppy](https://www.bookquiver.com/tony-thorne/shoot-the-puppy) ([Shoot the Puppy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tony-thorne/shoot-the-puppy.md))
- Authors: [Tony Thorne](https://www.bookquiver.com/tony-thorne)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-399-0
- Published: 2007-11-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Are you a bobo or a wombat ? Are you tempted by infobia or to kick dead whales up the beach ? If your answer to any of these questions is 'What are you talking about?', then you definitely need a copy of Shoot the Puppy . Amusing, informative and newly updated for 2007, it guides the reader through the ever-growing heap of contemporary jargon from around the English-speaking world, showing where it comes from, what it means, and what it tells us about our contemporary world.