The American heritage dictionary of idioms /

Ammer, Christine

The American heritage dictionary of idioms / Christine Ammer. - [Manila] : National Book Store, c1997. - v, 729 p. 23 cm.

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Originally published : Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

and slang phrases such as push the envelope. common proverbs ,especially ones that often occur in abbreviated form,such as bird in the hand,colloquilaism such as off the beam and out in left field emphatic redundancies whose word order cannot be reversed interjections and formula phrases,such as all the bests and take care such as far and wide and cease and desist Surveys of the idioms currently used in American English.Includes common figures of speech ,such as dark horse and blind as a bat

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