An American Glossary
Author: Richard Hopwood Thornton
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 450
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Hopwood Thornton
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 450
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Timothy Rasinski
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Published: 2007-04-12
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1425892973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Get ready to "hit a homerun" with strategies and suggestions that will "knock your socks off" including how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. The idioms and expressions are provided in context with stories and activities to teach usage and definitions and include hyperboles, metaphors, similes, and personification. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's research, the idioms are grouped by themes for ease in teaching and learning. Includes a Teacher Resource CD. 96pp.
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 1150
ISBN-13: 9780415259385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: John R. Tyson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2022-07-29
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1725281325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Methodism was Born in Crisis. It was a religious response to political polarization, ecclesiastical lethargy, classism and privilege, wage slavery and economic disparity, as well as to prejudice, inequality, and exclusion based on gender and race. Among the crises that convulsed Georgian England were: 1) the debilitating effects of the political use of religious authority; 2) the challenges of keeping faith in an age of science and reason; 3) the decline of “main line” religion; 4) the painful and oppressive impact of class privilege; 5) the inequities caused by dramatic economic disparity; 6) the hopelessness of wage slavery; 7) the devaluing and structural exclusion of women; 8) racial prejudice, and the systematic oppression non-white people; 9) the social crisis caused by religious prejudice; and 10) the debilitating effects of popular culture and its pastimes. The current volume traces how each of these historic crises drew from the early Methodists theological, spiritual, moral, and organizational impulses that became part of their spiritual DNA and left them with family traits that have come down to us in this very day. In a subsequent volume, Shaped by Controversy, eight of the main internal struggles that caused familial strife within the Methodist tradition will be examined and assessed. Taken together, these volumes are like a “distant mirror” with which Methodists and other modern Christians might take a good look at themselves. As such this is an invitation to hope anew and for Methodists as well as Christians of all backgrounds to consider who they are and what they intend be for Jesus Christ in the world.
Author: John Ayto
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010-07-08
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 019954378X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers entries for over six thousand idioms, including seven hundred new to this edition, and provides background information, additional cross-references, and national variants.
Author: Gail Brenner
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011-09-23
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 054418890X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most comprehensive reference for understanding and using the contemporary idioms of American English—with more than 1,000 entries. Mastering the use of idiomatic language is an essential step toward achieving fluency in any language. Webster's New World: American Idioms Handbook is the ideal guide to the slang, sayings, expressions, jargon, and colloquialisms of American English—covering more than 1,000 entries. Emphasizing acquisition and application, this book explains their meanings as well as when, where, why, and how to use them. A wealth of examples helps readers understand each idiom’s connotation and identify its appropriate context. An extensive index allows for quick and easy reference.
Author: David Burke
Publisher: SLANGMAN PUBLISHING
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781891888069
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 2 teaches you more popular American slang and idioms that everyone uses every day!If an American said to you, Could you please crack the window? you are NOT being asked to ¿break the window¿ which is indeed the literal meaning! You are simply being asked to ¿Open the window a little.¿Or if someone tells you to Knock it off! or Cut it out! ¿ that just means ¿Stop doing that!¿he Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 2 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:The WorkplaceShoppingHouseguestsBabysittingBirthday PartiesThe SubwayAches & PainsThe TelephoneThe Slangman Files ¿ a special section in each chapter with slang & idioms used in categories
Author: Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 736
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of British and American proverbs that are currently in use.