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A dictionary of confusable phrases : more than 10,000 idioms and collocations / Yuri Dolgopolov.
LIBRA PE1464 .D66 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dolgopolov, Yuri.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Idioms--Dictionaries.
- English language.
- English language--Idioms.
- English language--Usage--Dictionaries.
- English language--Usage.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- v, 397 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2010]
- Summary:
- "This dictionary covers over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings. Designed to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, it can be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, clichés, and set expressions"--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780786458554
- 0786458550
- OCLC:
- 617425055
- Publisher Number:
- 99939919402
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