Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms - Softcover

Heacock, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052153271X ISBN 13: 9780521532716

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This book unlocks the meaning of more than 5,000 idioms used in American English today.

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'... handy and well-thought-out ... this is a delightfully uncluttered and user-friendly book for the home and library reference shelves.' Reference Reviews

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The most complete and authoritative idioms dictionary available, the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms gives you the tools to understand contemporary American English. It gives clear, easy-to-understand definitions and more than 1,000 usage notes that explain what idioms mean and how they are used today. With dozens of entertaining illustrations and more than 8,000 example sentences taken from the Cambridge International Corpus, it shows how idioms are really used. The Subject Index helps learners find idioms related to health, money, feelings, truth, and many more topics, and the Study Section groups idioms to make them easier to learn. If you want to understand American English idioms, this is the book that will spell it out for you.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 052153271X
• ISBN 13: 9780521532716
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 514