Vocabulary Book - 100 Everyday Idioms

Here's a useful book explaining 100 commonly used metaphors (i.e. idioms)

What did you say?
What do you mean?

The metaphors are arranged alphabetically, based on the first noun – if there is one. If there is no noun, then the order is taken from the main word that doesn’t change, such as “backwards” in “bend over backwards” (people sometimes say “lean over backwards”).

I each case there is an explanation of what the idiom means, why or when people use it, plus examples.

Download it here. Slightly bigger file than usual (almost 6MB), hope it's ok for you.

Here's an example from the book:




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Grammar Book - PDF with hyperlinks

Here is a very useful grammar book It is in PDF format but it has hyperlinks which means that if you click on certain text you are able to jump from page to page in order to find what you are looking for. There are 224 pages. The file is zipped to 800KB. Highly recommended.

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