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+ 101 American English Idioms w/Audio CD by Harry Collis

101اصطلاح آمريكايي

Harry Collis | McGraw-Hill; 2 edition (February 12, 2007) | ISBN: 0071487727 | 104 pages | PDF + mp3 | 106 + 49.1 MB

This book makes American English phrases “duck soup.”
101 American English Idioms takes the mystery out of these common U.S. expressions and explains their meanings in context. On the audio CD, native speakers read each of the 101 idioms, so you can hear how American English sounds and practice what you have learned.

What Americans really mean when they say . . .
Drive someone up a wall--annoy someone greatly
Raise a stink--protest strongly
Pull someone's leg--fool someone
All thumbs--clumsy
Shoot the breeze--chat informally
Feel like a million dollars--feel wonderful
Duck soup--easy, effortless


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+ How to find English idioms that aren’t in the dictionary

چگونه ميتوان معاني اصطلاحاتي كه در ديكشنري يافت نمي شود پيدا كرد

Idioms are notoriously difficult for non-native speakers, because they usually don’t make sense if you translate them word for word. For example, the idiom “to kick the bucket” has nothing to do with buckets and everything to do with dying. Most learners are eager to learn about idioms because native speakers use them so frequently. So understanding idioms is important for understanding native speakers, and for sounding more native-like yourself!

If you are reading or listening to B@E, you are probably already and independent learner of English who is used to looking up idioms in your dictionary. If you’re really keen, you might even have a special dictionary of idioms. Dictionaries are indispensable tools for learning the meaning of idiomatic words and phrases. But they are not perfect: we’ve all experienced the frustration of discovering that the idiom we’re looking just isn’t in our dictionary. Luckily, there is a simple trick for finding idioms on the Internet. Here is how you do it: