Chambers Idioms

Chambers Idioms
Author: Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1982
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780550118233

Chambers Idioms

Chambers Idioms
Author: Cambridge University Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521600101

How to understand and hence use idioms in everyday speech.

A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases

A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases
Author: Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2016-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786459956

Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.

Chambers Dictionary of Idioms and Catch Phrases

Chambers Dictionary of Idioms and Catch Phrases
Author: Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1995
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780550183071

A major new edition of one of the classic dictionaries of idioms available, encompassing all idiomatic and catch phrase elements of the language - including the latest ones.

Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms

Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms
Author: Marvin Terban
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780590381574

This guide to idioms provides the student with an opportunity to bring color to their speech every day. Included are idioms from Native American and African American speech as well as the Bible, Aesop, and Shakespeare.

Cliches

Cliches
Author: Betty Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1999-01-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312198442

An editor of "Roget's Thesaurus" has collected more than 1,500 of the world's favorite cliches, categorizing them according to origin and most common meaning.