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This thoroughly revised new edition translates the most frequently used Italian and English idioms and phrases in two separate bilingual lists. Phrases are alphabetized according to each one's key word for quick reference.

Drawing from Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Yiddish, French, German, and Balinese languages, Rheingold offers an unusual cross-cultural word book introducing colorful, not easily translatable terms that deal with a variety of concepts. In topical chapters of words about human relationships, sex, beauty, politics, religion, and emotions, he describes both the narrow and broader meanings of foreign idioms that usually condense sentences, even paragraphs,...

Presents English definitions of over four thousand Spanish language idioms and colloquialisms, grouped according to Spanish key word, and includes example sentences, matching English expressions, and a Spanish-English index.

Written by a New York Times columnist renowned for his crotchety wit, this tome enlightens readers concerning proper usage, correct pronunciation, the roots of daily discourse, and the vacuous lingo in which "subsume" is co-opting "co-opt", word-burning stoves become "energy systems", and stores that sell eyeglasses squint out at the public as "vision centers". The author is aided in his campaign for precision and clarity in language by a legion of...

One of the most difficult tasks confronting the English speaker learning German is that of finding exactly the right German word to translate an English word in a particular context. Many common English words have several, sometimes a bewildering number of German equivalents. Thus it is all too easy to find yourself saying the equivalent of Have you extinguished the rubbish? instead of Have you put out the rubbish? Bilingual dictionaries list equivalents,...

The Oxford Collocations Dictionary shows you which words work together. Some word combinations are more frequent than others. With examples showing you how collocations are used.

A lexicographer compiles data on the origins and meanings of a treasury of more than four hundred curious sayings and expressions, from "letting the cat out of the bag" to "going on a wild-goose chase."