A Practical Guide to Colloquial Idiom

✍ Scribed by W. J. Ball

• Publisher: Longman
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
A Note on Idiom
Affirmation and Denial
Agreement and Disagreement
Apologies
Appearances
Approval and Disapproval
Argument and Discussion
Behaviour
Belief and Disbelief
Birth and Death
Busyness
Caution
Communication
Complaints
Compromise
Confusion
Consolation and Sympathy
Control
Courage and Fear
Deterioration
Ease and Difficulty
Economy and Waste
Embarrassment
Escape and Evasion
Events
Feelings
Anger
Annoyance
Resentment
Sadness
Friendship
Health
Hit and Miss
Home and Family
Honesty and Dishonesty
Ignorance and Understanding
Indifference
Inevitability
Inferiority and Superiority
Influence
Interference
Invitations
Kindness
Likes and Dislikes
Luck
Madness
Miscalculation
Moderation and Excess
Opinions and Judgements
Opportunism
Optimism and Pessimism
Partnership
Persistence and Perseverance
Plain Speaking
Politeness
Praise and Blame
Probable and Possible
Progress
Quarrels and Peacemaking
Respect and Disrespect
Responsibility
Retaliation and Retribution
Rich Man ... Poor Man ...
Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
Scolding
Secrets and Confidences
Sense and Nonsense
Social Relations
Start and Finish
Success and Failure
Suggestions
Superstitions
Surprise
The Ego - Inflated and Deflated
The Joker
Thoroughness
Tolerance and Intolerance
Trial and Achievement
Trouble
Victory and Defeat
Work
INDEX
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