TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ammer, Christine
TI  - The American heritage dictionary of idioms
SN  - 9710859722
PY  - 1997///
CY  - [Manila]
PB  - National Book Store
KW  - Americanisms
KW  - sears
KW  - English language
N1  - Reprint; Originally published : Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997
N2  - 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
ER  -