by Richard A. Spears · McGraw-Hill Contemporary · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780844208268
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«NTC's American Idioms Dictionary» is Richard A. Spears's dictionary of American idioms, published by McGraw-Hill Contemporary in paperback.
It collects over 12,000 examples of some 4,500 idiomatic expressions of American English. Its Phrase-Finder index allows locating any idiom from one of its words, even if only partially remembered. It also includes an appendix with 500 fixed-order phrases, such as «fast and furious», which cannot be inverted.
Second edition, published in 1993 within the National Textbook Language Dictionaries series; the revised edition adds 600 new entries. Linda Schinke-Llano is listed as editor.
Intended for students, writers, and speakers of American English who want to understand and use contemporary idioms with precision.
