Concise Dictionary of English Idioms

This revised edition provides a simple, but wide-ranging guide to the usage and meaning of the most commonly used idiomatic expressions in current English, with almost 900 new entries in a new format, and is a useful reference for the native or non-native English speaker of any age. Brian Phythian is the author of "A Concise Dictionary of Correct English", "English Slang", "Foreign Expressions", "Confusables" and "Phrase and Fable".