Hardcover • 1993 • English

A Dictionary Of Everyday Idioms

By Martin H.

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About the book

Any idiom, whatever type it is, is deceptive. Its real meaning is not quite what it appears to be on the surface. Only a second's thought is enough to make us wonder why to pull someone's leg should mean 'to make gentle fun of'. Most speech idioms used in typical English conversations do not provide such an opaque connection between the surface sense of the words and their real meaning as in this example, but they are perhaps all the more dangerous to handle correctly through being so innocuous....Show more

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1993

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English

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A Dictionary Of Everyday Idioms

Format

Hardcover

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