The Penguin Dictionary of English Idioms: 5000 Idioms

ISBN-13: 9780140514810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 400 str.

David Hinds-Howell

Opis

This dictionary groups idioms in classes such as colours (white as a sheet) and schools (including the mystifying public school which is explained though it is only an idiom to non-natives). It includes notes on the origin of the more interesting idioms.

O autorze

DAPHNE GULLAND is the daughter of David Hinds-Howell and has been researching idioms and their origins for a number of years. She lives in Alfter, Germany.
DAVID HINDS-HOWELL was born in 1916 and educated at Marlborough College and Oxford University. He had a long and distinguished career as a teacher of English and director of the Hillcrest School of English. He died recently.