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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms

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Houghton Mifflin, 1997 - Reference - 729 pages
"Bite the bullet", " get on the stick", "make no bones about it", " take the cake". The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of Idioms covers almost 10,000 expressions. Its main fare is, of course, idioms - groups of two or more words that together mean something different from the literal meaning of the individual words. In addition, this book discusses verb phrases such as " act up", "freeze out", and " get down", figures of speech such as "dark horse" and "blind as a bat", interjections and formulas like "says who" and " tough beans", common proverbs like a "bird in the hand", and slang terms such as "buy the farm" and "push up daisies". Each entry is defined and has an example sentence showing the expression in context. Most entries offer an explanation of the expression's literal meaning or origin and include information about its first appearance in English.

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User Review  - frankcomments - Overstock.com

Very good content value for the price. You will be pleased with more than 400 pages of well written idioms. You will not be disappointed with your purchase. My purchase was a gift and was appreciated by the recipient. Read full review

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User Review  - Christina - Goodreads

This is a book I will treasure for a long time to come. Where else can I find out the interesting, sometimes even comical stories behind everyday phrases? Take the idiom "To let the cat out of the bag ... Read full review

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About the author (1997)

Christine Ammer is a lifelong student of language. She is the author of 20 popular reference books, on subjects ranging from classical music to economics. For the past decade she has concentrated on language, especially colloquial expressions. She lives and looks into words in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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TitleThe American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
AuthorChristine Ammer
PublisherHoughton Mifflin, 1997
ISBN039572774X, 9780395727744
Length729 pages
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