by José Calles Vales, Belén Bermejo Meléndez · LIBSA EDITORIAL · tapa dura · ISBN 9788476308486
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«Dichos y frases hechas» is the linguistic essay by José Calles Vales and Belén Bermejo Meléndez, published by Libsa in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
It compiles sayings, set phrases and idioms of Spanish, explaining their origin and everyday use. Many come from traditions, customs, anecdotes or confusions fixed in the language; others, from cultured formulas accepted by popular speech. Examples: «ser un viva la Virgen», «cargar con el mochuelo», «prometer el oro y el moro».
It belongs to the «Lengua Española» collection by Libsa. It was published in 2000 and the ISBN of the work is 9788476308486.
Suitable for readers interested in the Spanish language, linguistics and popular culture.
José C. Vales is a Spanish writer and translator of English literature. He studied in Salamanca and Madrid. He has translated numerous English and American authors into Spanish, including Dickens, Trollope, Austen, Wilkie Collins, Defoe, Mary Shelley, Arnold Bennett, Eudora Welty, Stella Gibbons, E. F. Benson, and Edmund Crispin.
