ESSENTIAL IDIOMS IN ENGLISH by ROBERT J. DIXSON
FOREWORD
Idiomatic expressions have long played an important role in the English
language. In fact, the use of idioms is so widespread that an understanding of
these expressions is essential to successful communication, whether in
listening, speaking, reading, or writing.
The student may learn grammar and, with time, acquire adequate vocabulary,
but without a working knowledge of such idioms as above all, to get along, on