McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms by Richard Spears

McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms by Richard Spears

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Helps in learning idioms is as easy as apple pie. This reference defines hundreds of contemporary American idiomatic expressions and shows how to use them in real-life situations. It also teaches you more than 2,100 idioms, each exemplified with contextual sentences.

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McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms by Richard Spears

Understand American English better by mastering its idioms This authoritative reference offers thousands of American English idioms, common phrases, and colloquialisms. Entries include definitions and examples of idioms used in context. With help from McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms Dictionary, you will become familiar with English as it is used in the media, at work, around the house, and in everyday conversations. This knowledge will help you comprehend English as it is spoken in the United States and add variety to your word usage. Inside you will find: 2,000 entries with examples of everyday usageThe latest idioms used in the American lexiconFun illustrations that show the humor of taking expressions too literally
Richard A. Spears, Ph.D., is a reference editor and former linguistics professor who has written more than 30 dictionaries, including NTC's American Idioms Dictionary (ISBN: 0-8442-0273-8) and NTC's American English Learner's Dictionary (ISBN: 0-8442-5859-8).
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ISBN 13 9780071497848
ISBN 10 0071497846
Title McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms
Author Richard Spears
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Year published 2008-02-16
Number of pages 288
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