Description
Cat were given your tongue? Penny on your thoughts? Come again? Each day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they do not in reality mean what they are saying, idioms can stump even the native English-speaker. Marvin Terban makes working out idioms “as easy as pie” with the revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS. Explanations for, and origins of, more than 700 on a regular basis American idioms, complete with kid-friendly sample sentences. The entries are amusing in addition to educational. Alphabetical listing and cross-referencing index makes finding idioms a “piece of cake.”