Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English

A Corpus-based Approach
Moon, Rosamund (Honorary Research Fellow, School of English, University of Birmingham)
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Hardback
352 pages
Published: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 019823614X

A text-based study of fixed expressions, or idioms, providing an overview of this area of lexis in English. The central argument is that fixed expressions can only be understood when considered together with the texts in which they occur.