A Guide to Idioms

Author: Cullen, K et al (Eds)

Year: 2006

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.