Hold Your Horses: 8,500 Colorful Idioms and Expressions to Make Language Lively

By Richard A. Spears

This delightful guide to the idioms of American English and their usage includes more than 8,500 such expressions, each clearly defined and illustrated with at least two context sentences. The book provides 12,000 entertaining examples of usage and an Appendix offers 500 fixed order phrases.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517188996
• ISBN13: 9780517188996
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 544 Pages