This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of …
Usage and abusage: a guide to good English
by Partridge, Eric, Denison, Corrie, Vigilans
Discusses instances of misuse of the English language.
Collins cobuild dictionary of idioms
Collins cobuild dictionary of idioms
What do the whole kit and caboodle, the whole shebang, the whole megillah, the whole enchilada, the whole nine yards, the whole box and dice, and the full Monty have in common? They're all expressions that mean the entire quantity, and they're all examples of the breadth and dep…
What do “the whole kit and caboodle," “the whole shebang," “the whole megillah," “the whole enchilada," “the whole nine yards," “the whole box and dice," and “the full Monty" have in common? They're all expressions that mean “the entire qu…
What do the whole kit and caboodle, the whole shebang, the whole megillah, the whole enchilada, the whole nine yards, the whole box and dice, and the full Monty have in common? They're all expressions that mean the entire quantity, and they're all examples of the breadth and dep…
