175 Common American English Idioms

By Madeleine Doan

175 Common American English Idioms is a book that teaches essential and foundational idioms used in the USA. It is designed to be an easy-to-use guide especially for ESL students. With a unique Sorted-By-Meaning format, you can now look up idioms via their meanings rather than being limited to searching for them in alphabetical order. It also comes with guides to teach how and when to use the idioms; do you use them in informal, semi-formal or formal speech? What is informal, semi-formal or formal speech anyway? This book will help you with that. Packed with information, every idiom comes in its infinitive form; with at least 1 real-life subject pronoun example sentence. Created by a native American English speaker, you can now learn to speak English like an American and learn the idioms that American English speakers expect you to know. Also includes a brief overview of some of the most common Internet abbreviations. Enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312196506

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175 Common American English Idioms

175 Common American English Idioms

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By Madeleine D.

Copyright © 2014 Madeleine Doan (aka Madeleine Doan’s pen name, Madi Yin and, Madeleine D.).  All rights reserved.

Written by  Madeleine Doan (aka Madeleine Doan’s pen name, Madi Yin and, "Madeleine D.) 2014.

ISBN   978-1-312-19650-6

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Dedication

For all who wish to learn,

For my family,

And to Christ.

Instructions For Using This Guide (Important!)

Here are some common idioms that we use a lot of the time in America. The usages of these idioms can vary from region to region, or even from person to person. This is a general, non-inclusive compilation of the idioms and their uses.

How to use this guide

-It is recommended that when you need to find an idiom by its meaning, you should use the table of contents below to do so.

-The table of contents lists the groups of the idioms grouped by their meanings; with their group meanings listed in alphabetical order.

-If you want to find an idiom for its definition, you should use the index in the back of this book. The idioms in the index have been shortened.

-For the sake of convenience and order, the idioms, when alphabeticalized in the book under each group category, were alphabeticalized without the preceding To, For, etc. of the infinitive.

-You may also notice that some idioms may be listed several different groups. This is because some idioms may have more than 1 meaning. Don’t worry, if the idiom has more than one meaning, the other meanings are not counted as separate idioms. There are approximately 175 separate idioms in this book, even if the idiom itself may have more than one meaning. You may double-check in the numbered index if you wish.

-Please also read the When To Use Idioms chapter in this book, so you know how to use the idioms. After all, why learn something that you can’t use properly?

-Most of all, have fun and enjoy yourself using your newfound vocabulary of idioms.

Key

(To)=(At the beginning of the infinitive form of the idiom)=CAN be used concerning people.

(For something)=Relevant to something (a situation/thing/ action/ or etc.) but NOT to people.

( )=A noun that can be replaced with a relative noun (within the idiom itself)