A dictionary that opens the door to American English idioms. Whether you want to plumb the depths of idiomatic phrases or just be tuned in to current phrases such as living large and walk the walk and talk the talk, this is the book that will spell it out for you.

Based on the 700-million-word Cambridge International Corpus, a database of current written and spoken English, the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms is the last word on American idioms.