OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH IDIOMS 1st Edition by Cowie Ap Mackin

• This dictionary, formerly published as the Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Volume 2, deals comprehensively with general idiomatic expressions in current English.
• Over 14 000-references recorded and described
• FE-kart-vie sentences drawn from a wide range of contemporary sources
• Explanations unusual features of grammar and usage
• Simple grammar scheme showing cut dunce patterns
• A detailed index of all nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs used in head phrases
• A second index of derived compounds and structural variants of expression
• A thorough cross-reference system both to other entries in the dictionary and to relevant collies in its companion volume, the Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs Together, the Oxford Dictionary of English idioms and the Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs Worn the most comprehensive and systematic analysis available of the complexities of idiomatic English.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• General Introduction
• The content and arrangement of the entries
• key
• The headphrase
• Order of headphrases
• Grammatical patterns and codes
• Style, register and function
• Definitions
• Collocations
• Illustrations
• Footnotes
• Cross-reference
• List of Sources
• Abbreviations and symbols used in the dictionary
• The Dictionary
• Index of headphrases
• Index of variant and derived forms