| Description |
xiii, 498 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"The Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms is a dictionary that opens the door to American English idioms. It includes more than 5,500 idioms that are used in current newspapers, magazines, and books; on radio and TV; on Web pages, and in informal conversation. It contains simple, easy-to-understand definitions and more than 1,000 usage notes that explain what idioms mean and how they are used in American English today. It features a two-color page design that makes it easy to use and colorful illustrations that bring idioms to life; and it illustrates how idioms are really used, with more than 8,000 example sentences taken from the Cambridge International Corpus, a database that contains over 200 million words of spoken and written American English."--BOOK JACKET |
| Prior Title |
A 423.1 CAM SSLP. 719310 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes index |
| Subject |
English language -- United States -- Idioms -- Dictionaries.
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Americanisms -- Dictionaries.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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| Author |
Heacock, Paul.
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Cambridge University Press.
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| LC no. |
2003053233 |
| ISBN |
052153271X paperback |
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