NTC's American Idioms Dictionary
- ISBN-10
- 0844208264
- ISBN-13
- 9780844208268
- Series
- NTC's American Idioms Dictionary
- Category
- Americanisms
- Pages
- 532
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
- Author
- Richard A. Spears
Description
Completely revised, updated, reorganized, and enlarged with 600 new entries. Essential for writers and learners of American English, it features a unique new format, an appendix of 500 fixed-order phrases--such as "fast and furious"--that cannot be reversed, and a Phrase-Finder Index for easy lookups of even partially remembered phrases.
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Other editions
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- 2000
- 625 pages
- Paperback
- Ntc Publishing Group
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