101 American English Proverbs is designed to help students of English understand and use proverbs that relate to everyday situations. The proverbs in this book are grouped in nine thematic sections, in order to facilitate student understanding and acquisition of proverbs for use in particular contexts. Within each section the proverbs are listed alphabetically.
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English idioms dictionary
All languages have phrases or sentences that cannot be under- stood literally. Even if you know all the words in a phrase and understand all the grammar of the phrase completely, the mean- ing may still not be apparent. Many proverbs, informal phrases, and common sayings offer this kind of problem.
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As far as we know, this is trie first time anyone has put together a volume of general TV quotes—rather surprising, considering how popular television is, and how many other collections of quotes have made it into print. Maybe people assume there's nothing on television worth quoting. Well, there is But you have to watch a lot of TV to find it. Hidden somewhere between inane sitcom jokes and "slam-bang" action is the subtle glue that holds television programs together—bits of wisdom ... poignant comments about life ... even political satire. It was our mission—once we chose to accept it—to find these nuggets.
Phrases is a book of exercises based on phrases popular in everyday English. It contains over 250 well-known catch phrases, cliches and proverbs, providing information on sayings such as to get the sack, Gordon Bennett!, cash on the nail, at the drop of a hat and many others.
