How to swear around the world

This essential phrasebook collects the most colourful, explicit and outrageous ways to tell people off in different languages from all around the world.

Featuring dozens of different languages, the sayings range from everyday swears to family curses to x-rated encounters with animals.

Some of the most useful expressions include wishing an enemy a painful death, insulting a person’s grandmother and accusing someone’s mother of having intimate relations with bears in the forest.