Presents 1,700 entries, including colorful words and phrases from television and movies, as well as the streets and campuses. Each entry in this dictionary has two examples.
More idioms than you can shake a feather at With more than 2,100 clichés, proverbs, and informal expressions, this is your super source of everyday American idioms.
Learning everyday expressions is now more convenient for non-native speakers of English thanks to these pocket-size dictionaries. Each is a compact, yet complete and up-to-date, reprint of one of NTC's top-selling ESL titles.
This includes more than 1,800 of the most frequently used idioms in contemporary British English, each with at least two example sentences. Compiled with non-native speakers in mind, the entire collection is compressed into a pocket-size edition.
NTC s Super-Mini Common American Phrases contains 1,700 common phrases and colloquial expressions used in contemporary American English. This dictionary contains phrases that Americans frequently use in their greetings, goodbyes, and everyday small talk. The entries have been selected with the special needs of nonnative speakers in mind and are presented in realistic contexts. The most useful and up-to-date guide of its kind, this book is an invaluable reference for all students of English who want to know the most common and colloquial expressions used in American speech today.
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.
The 411 on the latest American slang This up-to-date dictionary presents you with 2,100 entries including colorful words and phrases from television and movies, as well as the streets and campuses.
Derived primarily from NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases, this is a miniature-sized monolingual dictionary designed for learners seeking to improve their understanding of the English language. It provides 16,000 senses of over 7500 of the most common and basic words used in English. This small dictionary should help readers with spelling, pronunciation, parts of speech, meaning, and irregular forms. It defines words using the smallest possible vocabulary. In many cases, more than one definition is given, so the learner has additional help in figuring out the meaning of a word.
Completely revised, updated, reorganized, and enlarged with 600 new entries. Essential for writers and learners of American English, it features a unique new format, an appendix of 500 fixed-order phrases--such as "fast and furious"--that cannot be reversed, and a Phrase-Finder Index for easy lookups of even partially remembered phrases.