Straight from the Horse's Mouth

by Richard A. Spears

Book Overview

This delightful guide to the idioms of American English and their usage includes more than 8,500 such expressions, each clearly defined and illustrated with at least two context sentences. The book provides 12,000 entertaining examples of usage and an Appendix offers 500 fixed order phrases.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844209015
• ISBN13: 9780844209012
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.7"