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For students at upper-intermediate to advanced level who want to improve their knowledge and understanding of English idioms and other expressions in contemporary use. So You Think You Know English is for students at upper-intermediate to advanced level who want to improve their knowledge and understanding of English idioms and other expressions in contemporary use. The book contains fifteen units, each including up to six lively exercises for exploring and practising idioms and colloquial expressions. Five units cover contemporary idioms in general use, and ten units are linked to a particular theme, such as water, sports, people, food or business. You will learn how to use particular expressions and discover their origins. There is a key to check your answers to the exercises.

Learn phrases and expressions for everyday situations Covers topics such as sport, study, business, social events and home technology Includes information on style, synonyms, opposites and derivatives, and common word partners.
Download the wordlist at www.oup.com/elt/wordskills and test yourself on the phrasal verbs and idioms covered in the book Written by vocabulary experts Ruth Gairns and Stuart Redman, the authors of the popular Oxford Word Skills series.

Idioms are fairly fixed phrases that consist of more than one word, with a meaning that cannot be understood from putting together the meanings of the individual words. But this dictionary of approximately 2,000 idioms is different from other dictionaries of idioms. Such dictionaries often try to give a complete list of all idioms; in this book we have concentrated on phrases that are used in certain conversational situations. Clear examples are How do you do? when greeting, Well I never! when you are surprised, and sayings such as Great minds think alike and Wonders will never cease.

This book will be found useful by all speakers of English. Students learning English as a second or foreign language, esp

Chcete lépe mluvit i psát, ale také lépe rozumět anglicky? Pak si osvojte idiomatická spojení – slovní skupiny se specifickým, často neočekávaným významem, proto se v jejich užívání i porozumění často chybuje.

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This new edition of the Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the most important English idioms from around the world.

Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary offers in-depth coverage of the most important idioms in English, and provides additional information about how common they are, in which contexts they should be used, what they mean and how to use them. This edition has been fully revised to provide learners with detailed information on idioms in a language that is easy to understand. The new, 2-colour layout of the dictionary means that it is easier than ever for students to find the information they need.

This new edition of the Cambridge Idioms Dictionary explains over 7,000 idioms current in British, American and Australian English, helping learners to understand them and use them with confidence. • Fully updated with new idioms, e.g. think outside the box, play out of your skin, the new black • New, attractive page layout with idioms in colour for easy reference • Clear explanations and example sentences for every idiom • Most common idioms highlighted so students know which to learn • Topic section covering useful language areas, e.g. agreeing and disagreeing, telling stories

Nové vydání tohoto slovníku idiomů je rozšířené a zmodernizované tak, aby odpovídalo dnešní mluvené angličtině.
Obsahuje 10 000 britských a amerických idiomů a výrazů, které uslyšíme od rodilých mluvčích.