Defines over 3,000 idioms commonly used in everyday speech, and illustrates them in example sentences. Organizes the idioms by grammatical structure (e.g. idioms with nouns and adjectives, idioms with prepositions); by means of key words (e.g. colours, animals, parts of the body); and by special situations (e.g. work, travel, buying and selling). Includes a comprehensive index so the book is very easy to use. Is accompanied by two books of exercises, l 0194327728 d Exercises on Idioms t and l 0194327868 d Exercises on Phrasal Verbs t .