Oxford Idioms Dictionary for Learners of English

A new edition of the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of English Idioms, enlarged and updated to reflect the English of the new millennium.

Key features

• Contains over 10,000 British and American idioms that are frequently used by native speakers today.
• Simple definitions help learners understand what the idioms mean.
• Corpus-based examples show how idioms are used in everyday English.
• Clear links guide learners to the idioms they need.
• Interesting notes explain the origin of many idioms.
• Usage notes give information on vocabulary or grammar in the idioms.
• New illustrations for many of the more colouful, everyday idioms.
• A new section of study pages and exercises to give learners practice in using the most frequent idioms naturally.