The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms

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Baker & Taylor, CATS, Aug 11, 2008 - Reference - 480 pages
The cat will never get your tongue once you have The American Heritager Dictionary of Idioms. This book defines nearly 10,000 idioms - expressions consisting of two or more words whose combined meaning is different from the literal meaning of the individual words. Each entry has both a definition and a sentence showing the idiom used in context. Most entries offer an explanation of the idiom's origin and indicate when the expression first appeared in English.

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