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“The movie kept me literally glued to my seat. The chances of our buttocks being literally epoxied to a seat are about as small as the chances of our literally rolling in the aisles while watching a funny movie or literally drowning in tears while watching a sad one. We actually mean The movie kept me figuratively glued to my seat -- but who needs figuratively, anyway?...

A non-stop flight. Never get on one of these. You'll never get down...” - Richard Lederer, Crazy English: the Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language

English as a Second Language

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Idiomatic Expressions 1

Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press - dictionary of Idioms.

Dave Sperling’s Phrasal Verb Page - Dave's ESL Cafe -

English Daily - Online exercises, idioms, common abbreviations, slang, proverbs and much more.


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Commonly-Used American Slang - Each idiom is placed in sentence and a pull down menu gives an equivalent word or expression so that the student can understand its meaning.

Idioms Dictionary at English-Zone.Com - A large collection of idioms, their meanings and examples for each. On the same Web site in the section called  Idiom Zone, you can also find lessons and quizzes on idioms under specific topics: food, animals, body, relationship, baseball, idiomatic phrases with "be about to".