Dictionary of Idioms. (Словарь английских фразеологизмов)

This title focuses on 300 of the most common idioms in current use in both Britain and America. Special attention is given to the semantic and syntactic variations of many idioms. The material is suitable for both class work and self-study and can be used with Cobuild's student dictionary. Contains more than 3000 idioms from British and American English with thousands of examples. There is also information on the variations that idioms undergo so that students may identify them and their meaning even when they do not appear in their standard form.