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This first edition of A Tome of Idioms has been published as a comprehensive, concise, compact, and efficient guide to the meanings and origins of Idioms, Proverbs, and Sayings. Each inclusion is written in a clear and uncomplicated style.
First published in 2019 this book contains over 900 easily readable entries in systematic order augmented by an extensive Bibliography.
This book will be of general interest to everyone who has a curious, inquisitive, questioning, or enquiring intellect.
Sometimes, without knowing, we quote idiomatical expressions in our everyday conversations.
An idiom is used to communicate something that other words do not convey as clearly or as meaningfully.
Idioms tend to be colloquial and are more effective when used in spoken rather than written English.
The origins of idioms are sometimes difficult to trace which means that finding a precise date a particular idiom came into existence is never easy.
A number of idioms, proverbs, and sayings originate in well-known literature and Holy texts such as, William Shakespeare (60 entries), the Bible (47 entries), John Heywood (27 entries), Aesop (15 entries), and Geoffrey Chaucer (12 entries), to name but a few. Some of these have evolved in many different forms over several years into the expressions we use today.
Extract from @A Tome of Idioms
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B.H. McKechnie