A guide to using idioms correctly and appropriately. - Focus on idioms in everyday use, with over 2000 common idioms from British and American English. - Full sentence definitions present idioms in context and illustrate grammatical constructions. - Hundreds of examples of real use from the British National Corpus. - Easy to use: no complicated grammatical codes or abbreviations. - Extra help with idioms used in particular contexts (e.g. to express anger or happiness) to make learning new idioms easier.