by Thomas Hill Long, Laurence Urdang · Pearson Education Limited · tapa dura · ISBN 9780582555242
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«Longman Dictionary of English Idioms» is the dictionary of English idioms by Thomas Hill Long and Laurence Urdang, published by Pearson Education Limited in hardcover.
The work analyzes over 4500 English idioms and provides more than 6000 example sentences from real usage, both written and spoken. It includes grammatical guidance for using each expression correctly, notes on their origins and cross-references, so that the reader understands their meaning and common usage.
1979 edition in English, with 412 pages and an approach oriented to learning and consulting the language.
Suitable for students of English as a foreign language and for those wishing to deepen their understanding of the natural use of idiomatic expressions.
Laurence Urdang was a lexicographer, editor and author noted for first computerising the unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1966. The dataset for the dictionary contained a 25,000,000-word corpus.
