内容简介
Morethan8,000idiomaticwordsandphrasesthatarestandardinAmericanEnglisharelistedwithdefinitionsandsamplesentencestoclarifytheirmeanings.EarliereditionsofthisA-to-ZdictionaryhaveprovedespeciallyhelpfultoTOEFLandTOEICtesttakers,aswellastootherstudentsinNorthAmericaforwhomEnglishistheirsecondlanguage.Idiomsundergoconstantchangeineverylivinglanguage,somefallingoutofusewhilenewwordsandphrasesbecomepartofthestandardvocabulary.ThisneweditiontakesaccountofthelatestidiomaticchangesandpresentsasolidbackgroundtoinformalAmericanEnglish.