Links and resources

If you want to learn more and broaden your horizon on English Idioms, here you can find some very useful and interesting different links, in constant updating. 
 
 
Do you prefer browsing a dictionary?
 
Are you a very curious bookworm? Do you like paper pages? Read a book
 
  • Silvia Monti, Inglese: slang & idioms. Le mille facce della lingua viva senza censure, Vallardi, 2012. An alphabetical dictionary with over 7000 popular idioms and expressions commonly used in the UK...even the most coarse of street slang. A great occasion to get familiar with Back Slang, Cockney Rhyming, movie language, song lyrics and much more...to be trendy when you are speaking English!
 
  • John Smithback, Fun with idioms 2 , Iuniverse 2005. This book with its humorous illustrations and witty definitions is almost guaranteed to make learning English idioms fun! And as easy as ABC! 
 
  • Marvin Terban, In a Pickle: And Other Funny Idioms, Paperback,New York, 2007.Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the horse's mouth" and "white elephant" are amusingly explained and illustrated
 
  • Marvin Terban, Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms, Paperback, New York, 2006. If you think idioms are a "tough nut to crack," pick up the revised dictionary : fun new design and more than 700 common American phrases, sayings, and expressions. The entries are amusing as well as educational. Alphabetical listing and cross-referencing index makes finding idioms a "piece of cake."
 
  • Marvin Terban, It Figures!Fun Figures of Speech , Paperback, New York, 1993. An introduction to common figures of speech -- metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole -- with guidelines for their use and numerous illustrative examples.