The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms

The cat will never get your tongue once you have The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms. This book defines nearly 10,000 idioms — expressions consisting of two or more words whose combined meaning is different from the literal meaning of the individual words. Each entry has both a definition and a sentence showing the idiom used in context. Most entries offer an explanation of the idiom’s origin and indicate when the expression first appeared in English.

• Author
• Christine Ammer

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 480

• Publisher
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780618249534

• Genres
• reference, language, writing, education, dictionaries

• Release date
• 2003