The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms


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The cat will never get your tongue once you have The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms. This book defines nearly 10,000 idioms — expressions consisting of two or more words whose combined meaning is different from the literal meaning of the individual words. Each entry has both a definition and a sentence showing the idiom used in context. Most entries offer an explanation of the idiom’s origin and indicate when the expression first appeared in English.

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Paperback: 480 pages

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2003-09-13)

Dimensions (H L W): 102 x 882 x 598

ISBN: 0618249532

EAN: 9780618249534