McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms

Better understand American English by mastering its idioms This authoritative reference offers thousands of American English idioms, common phrases, and colloquialisms. Entries include definitions and examples of idioms used in context. With help from McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms Dictionary, you will become familiar with English as it is used in the media, at work, around the house, and in everyday conversations. This knowledge will help you comprehend English as it is spoken in the United States and add variety to your word usage. Inside you will find: 1,500 entries and more than 3,000 examples The latest idioms used in the American lexicon Fun illustrations to further increase your grasp of each entry's meaningSpears, Richard A. is the author of 'McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms', published 2008 under ISBN 9780071497848 and ISBN 0071497846.