As Nice As Pie
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Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings
Author: Bartlett Jere Whiting
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Release Date: 1989
A collection of British and American proverbs that are currently in use.
English Idioms and Phrases Dictionary
Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from their individual words alone, and the English language is full of them—and so is this dictionary: 4,800+ English idioms and phrases with example sentences included for you so as to understand them all. This is the essential idioms dictionary if you want to talk like a native speaker—or just find out more about the colorful phrases you hear and say every day.
Food and Drink Idioms in English
Author: Laura Pinnavaia
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2019-01-10
Idioms carry an aura of mystery for all speakers, owing to the discrepancy between their literal and non-literal meanings. This book clears up some of these ambiguities, by examining a series of expressions that have derived from the most instinctive and essential of all human behaviour: eating and drinking. The quantity and quality of 276 food and drink idioms are explored, investigating two hundred and fifty years of English monolingual lexicography and forty years of usage as attested by contemporary linguistic corpora. The examination of these idioms’ syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, historical, social and cultural characteristics will foster in speakers a whole new approach to idiom comprehension and usage, and will constitute thought-provoking ground for further research in other idiom domains.