Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms
Marvin Terban, John Devore
Library Binding
(Turtleback, July 1, 2006)
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts? Come again? Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they don't really mean what they say, idioms can stump even the native English-speaker. Marvin Terban makes understanding idioms ""as easy as pie"" with explanations for, and origins of, more than 700 everyday American idioms, complete with kid-friendly sample sentences. The entries are amusing as well as educational. Alphabetical listing and cross-referencing index makes finding idioms a ""piece of cake.
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