Richard A. Spears Bücher

With more than 7,000 up-to-date phrases, this dictionary covers situations from talking to a doctor to ordering a meal, and helps learners communicate personal feelings, and make small talk.

Expressions that are identified as slang are often some type of entertaining wordplay. Colloquial expressions are usually considered as being direct or quaint. Slang and colloquial expressions come in different forms: single words, simple phrases, complete sentences, and are used in different functions: noun, verb, adjective, adverb. They make up a large part of American communication in the media and in informal conversation. The entries in this dictionary come from many sources: films and television have provided much of the jargon of crime and law enforcement; college campuses offer expressions that have stood the test of trendiness and are now part of standard American English ... Alternative and telated definitions and usages, as well as the word or phrase function are provided in the A-to-Z section ...

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.

Provides more than 11,000 examples of usage for 5,500 high-frequency English idioms. Here, entries are mainly standard British English, but also include slang and informal expressions. schovat popis

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Presents 1,700 entries, including colorful words and phrases from television and movies, as well as the streets and campuses. Each entry in this dictionary has two examples.