Spilling the Beans on the Cats Pyjamas: Popular Expressions—What They Mean and Where We Got Them

How on earth did with bells on come to express enthusiasm?
What do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes?
... And who is the face that launched a thousand ships?

Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the meanings of these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used.