This book contains about 1,000 commonest idioms which students are likely to come across and have to master. The idioms are listed in alphabetical order and explained in clear and easy-to-understand language. Each explanation is supported by lots of example sentences to illustrate how the idiom is used.

    Learning to use idioms naturally, in an appropriate context and tone, is a key to mastering of truly expressive English.

- Preface
- Idioms
- Exercises
- Andwers

Virginia Klein is a freelance lexicographer and editor, formerly with Chambers Publishers in Edinburgh and Cambridge University Press. She has a degree in History of Art from the University of Warwick. She has worked on many dictionaries and reference books, including ELT dictionaries such as Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary and Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, and English dictionaries such as Chambers English Dictionary and Encarta World English Dictionary.