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More than 3,000 contemporary expressions cover all aspects of basic communication, for intermediate and advanced learners of English.

Helps in learning idioms is as easy as apple pie. This reference defines hundreds of contemporary American idiomatic expressions and shows how to use them in real-life situations. It also teaches you more than 2,100 idioms, each exemplified with contextual sentences.

Covering American English verbs, this reference explains more than 2,400 contemporary American phrasal verbs and illustrates their use in real-life situations. Each entry includes a full-sentence example.

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs is a comprehensive reference featuring over 24,000 entries, including phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, and clichés. Each entry is defined with example sentences, and it offers a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries, showcasing contemporary American English.

Helps to learn the lingo of American English. This dictionary offers you the definitions of more than 12,000 slang and informal expressions from various sources, ranging from golden oldie to ping. Each entry is followed by examples illustrating how an expression is used in everyday conversation.

Covers more than 14,000 idiomatic forms in American English, exemplified with contextual sentences.

NTC's core vocabulary for learners of American English features simplified definitions and example sentences for every entry. Irregular forms of nouns and verbs appear as separate entries as well as spellings of adverbs in the comparative and superlative.

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

This fascinating reference presents more than 1,800 of the most interesting and difficult-to-grasp expressions used by Brits around the world. Completely indexed.

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 ...