This dictionary helps you to understand and use more than 10,000 British and American idioms. It brings simple definitions explaining the meaning clearly, over 300 origin boxes giving interesting background information on many of the idioms, over 10,000 corpus - and Internet - based examples showing how idioms are really used, over 200 note boxes giving extra information on usage or more difficult items of vocabulary, 30 fun illustrations make the idioms easier to remember. The book also includes 24-page section of photocopiable tasks and activities for use in class or for self-study, stress shown to help you with pronunciation, clear system of links to help you find the idiom you need quickly and easily.