Ntc's American Idioms Dictionary

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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.

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NTC’S American IDIOMS Dictionary This page intentionally left blank. NTC’S American IDIOMS Dictionary The Most Practical Reference for the Everyday Expressions of Contemporary American English third edition Richard A. Spears, Ph.D. abc McGraw-Hill Copyright © 2000 by The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-138988-1 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-8442-0274-6. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at [email protected] or (212) 904-4069.
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