Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms

The most complete and authoritative idioms dictionary available the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms gives you the tools to understand contemporary American English. It gives clear easy-to-understand definitions and more than 1000 usage notes that explain what idioms mean and how they are used today. With dozens of entertaining illustrations and more than 8000 example sentences taken from the Cambridge International Corpus it shows how idioms are really used. The Subject Index helps learners find idioms related to health money feelings truth and many more topics and the Study Section groups idioms to make them easier to learn. If you want to understand American English idioms this is the book that will spell it out for you.