V. H. Collins

A SECOND BOOK OFENGLISH IDIOMSStThe success of A Book of English Idioms, pub-lished last year and already in its second impres-sion, has encouraged the author to compile thissequel on identical lines.As in the previous book, the idioms are con-fined to those that are current today. Theirmeanings...

Preface For much valuable help in the selection the editor is indebted to several friends, especially to Mrs. Thomas, who placed unreservedly at his service a scheme for an anthology of narrative verse drawn up provisionally in 1914 by her husband, Edward Thomas, who was killed before he could...

PREFACEThe main principles on which this book has been compiled are similar to those of its predecessor, A Book of English Idioms. For the title the word English has been kept, although a number of foreign, especially French and Latin, phrases, are included, because, with their adoption in ordinary...

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