Take My Word For It: A Dictionary Of English Idioms Anatoly Liberman University Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences Linguistics

Three Centuries Of English Idioms-Their Unusual Origins And Unexpected Interpretationsto Pay Through The Nose Raining Cats Dogs By Hook Or Crook Curry Favor Drink Like A Fish Eat Crow We Hear Such Phrases Every Day But This Book Is First Truly All-Encompassing Etymological Guide To Both Their Meanings Spanning More Than Take My Word For It Fascinating One-Of-A-Kind Window Into Surprisingly Short History Idioms In Widely Known His Studies Anatoly Liberman Explains One Thousand Popular Obscure Occurring American British Standard Including Many Regional Expressions Even Precise Meaning Most Are Often Lost Based On Critical Analysis Countless Conjectures With Exact In-Depth References (Rare Literature Subject) Provides Not Only Large Corpus Idiomatic Also Vast Bibliography Detailed Indexes Thesaurus Make Content Accessible At Glance Liberman\ S Introduction Conclusion Add Historical Dimensions Result Decades Research Leading Authority Instructive Absorbing Scholars General Readers Who Won\ T Find Another Resource As Comparable Scope Data Remotely Exhaustive Σελίδες: 328 Διαστάσεις: 17 8X17 8Cm