William Freeman

In revising William Freeman's Dictionary, I have done nothing to change the two objects he had in view. The first was to furnish both the native or the foreign reader with a simple and practical guide to the most frequently used idiomatic expressions in English-those countless expressions which...

In revising William Freeman's Dictionary, I have done nothing to change the two objects he had in view. The first was to furnish both the native or the foreign reader with a simple and practical guide to the most frequently used idiomatic expressions in English-those countless expressions which...

Preface This dictionary has two objects. The first is to furnish the reader with a simple and practical guide to the most frequently used idiomatic expressions in English—those countless expressions which everyone uses, which usually evade the normal rules of grammar, and which often have...