[General] A book for idioms

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justlearning

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I(being a non native speaker) often find myself coming up with unnecessarily contrived(and often awkward) sentences when a simple idiom would have made it sound natural(and much more pleasing).

For example, if I am showering praise on someone without their knowing that I am making fun of them, it will never come to my mind that I am ""pulling his leg" and he isn't getting it" rather than ""making fun of him with all these undeserving praise" and he isn't getting it" .

Could you please suggest a book that provides idioms to be used for these kinds of common situations?
 
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emsr2d2

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I (being a non native speaker) often find myself coming up with unnecessarily contrived (and often awkward) sentences when a simple idiom would have made it sound natural (and much more pleasing).

Remember to put a space before an opening bracket. See my corrections above in red.
 
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