“The proverbial murder”: notable words, expressions and proverbial phrases in Agatha Christie’s writings
The paper examines the language of literary works of detective writer Agatha Christie, paying special attention to some interesting words, concepts and expressions found in her works. The article reveals the relationship between Miss Jane Marple’s anecdote about a frog and a clock from the novel “Th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Modern Humanitarian Researches
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Studia Humanitatis |
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| Online Access: | https://st-hum.ru/en/node/1426/ |
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| Summary: | The paper examines the language of literary works of detective writer Agatha Christie, paying special attention to some interesting words, concepts and expressions found in her works. The article reveals the relationship between Miss Jane Marple’s anecdote about a frog and a clock from the novel “The Body in the Library” and the English term of the 17th century, clarifies individual details of the past of expressions a “flea in the ear”, “the thumb mark of St. Peter”, “hundreds and thousands”, “poison dissolved in sugar”, “breakfast with the Borgias”, “spinach and gammon”, “secret adversary”, “finest Italian hand”, “Hastings”, “unofficial wife”. A connection is found between the story of hundreds and thousands and the way the victim was poisoned in the story “The Tuesday Night Club”. Intrigued by the name of the pie, “Delicious Death”, from the novel “A murder is announced”, the author of the paper comes to the conclusion that it could have been borrowed from Handel’s opera “Acis and Galatea”. |
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| ISSN: | 2308-8079 |