The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
46442249539, 9780618249534
Автор
Ammer Christine
Издатель
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Год выпуска
2003
- The cat will never get your tongue once you have The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. This book defines nearly 10,000 idioms - expressions consisting of two or more words whose combined meaning is different from the literal meaning of the individual words. Each entry has both a definition and a sentence showing the idiom used in context. Most entries offer an explanation of the idiom"s origin and indicate when the expression first appeared in English.