Essential American idioms
Subtitle: makes idioms, clichés, and phrases easy to understand and to use
By: Richard A. Spears.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: NTC reference
Publisher: NTC Pub. Group
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lincolnwood, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: English language -- United States -- Idioms -- Dictionaries; Americanisms -- Dictionaries
Description: This revised and updated second edition of Essential American Idioms defines and explains nearly 1,700 idiomatic expressions of contemporary American English. The entries have been selected with the needs of nonnative speakers of English in mind and represent frequently used phrases of everyday spoken and written American English.

Among the special features of this book are the following: each entry has at least two example sentences illustrating how the idiom is used in context in natural American English; and a new Phrase-Finder Index enables users to locate a particular idiom quickly by looking up any of its major words.
Notes: Includes index.