American Idioms and Some Phrases Just for Fun

An ESLMeaning and UsageWorkbook
—Contains Both Practice Exercises and Tests—

ESL students using intermediate-stage programs will uncover this guide a beneficial complement to their classroom textbook.  Just as important, they’ll see it as a dependable information to the intricacies of idiomatic American English. Why, following all, should a newcomer to the English language be expected to make sensation out of these kinds of phrases as get on the ball…make a beeline…have a bone to choose? These and dozens much more phrases are discussed, “translated” into more formal English, and repeated in different contexts.