Richard A. Spears Bücher

Erklärt anhand von Beispielsätzen Verwendung und Bedeutung von Redewendungen und sprichwörtlichen Redensarten des britischen Englisch.

With more than 7,000 up-to-date phrases, this dictionary covers situations from talking to a doctor to ordering a meal, and helps learners communicate personal feelings, and make small talk.

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs is a comprehensive reference featuring over 24,000 entries, including phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, and clichés. Each entry is defined with example sentences, and it offers a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries, showcasing contemporary American English.

Helps in learning idioms is as easy as apple pie. This reference defines hundreds of contemporary American idiomatic expressions and shows how to use them in real-life situations. It also teaches you more than 2,100 idioms, each exemplified with contextual sentences.

Covering American English verbs, this reference explains more than 2,400 contemporary American phrasal verbs and illustrates their use in real-life situations. Each entry includes a full-sentence example.

Expressions that are identified as slang are often some type of entertaining wordplay. Colloquial expressions are usually considered as being direct or quaint. Slang and colloquial expressions come in different forms: single words, simple phrases, complete sentences, and are used in different functions: noun, verb, adjective, adverb. They make up a large part of American communication in the media and in informal conversation. The entries in this dictionary come from many sources: films and television have provided much of the jargon of crime and law enforcement; college campuses offer expressions that have stood the test of trendiness and are now part of standard American English ... Alternative and telated definitions and usages, as well as the word or phrase function are provided in the A-to-Z section ...