Description :
A new edition of the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of English Idioms , enlarged and updated to reflect the English of the new millennium.
Keyfeatures :
- Contains over 10,000 British and American idioms that are frequently used by native speakers today.
- Simple definitions help learners understand what the idioms mean.
- Corpus-based examples show how idioms are used in everyday English.
- Clear links guide learners to the idioms they need.
- Interesting notes explain the origin of many idioms.
- Usage notes give information on vocabulary or grammar in the idioms.
- New illustrations for many of the more colouful, everyday idioms.
- A new section of study pages and exercises to give learners practice in using the most frequent idioms naturally.
- Short forms, symbols and labels used in the dictionary
- Guide to using the dictionary
- Dictionary A-Z
- Study Pages
- Key to the study pages