Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
• Contains over 6,000 idioms from all over the English-speaking world
• Hundreds of illustrative quotations, both modern and historical, offer readers a clear idea of how the phrases can be used
• Extra features offer fascinating additional information for many entries
• Easy to navigate, including many cross-references, making it ideal for quick reference.
• Most useful alternative words given first, with word closest in meaning to entry word given in bold
• Draws on the latest findings of Oxford's language monitoring
- the largest dictionary research programme in the world
• Detailed background on every idiom
Did you know that 'flavour of the month' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlours in the 1940s, when a particular flavour would be specially promoted for a month at a time? And did you know that 'off the cuff' refers to the rather messy practice of writing impromptu notes on one's shirt cuff before speaking in public?These and many more idioms are explained and put into context in the Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms completed with a range of recently established idioms such as 'the elephant in the corner', 'go figure', 'like a rat up a drainpipe', 'sex on legs', 'step up to the plate', 'too posh to push', 'a walk in the park', 'win ugly'.
Also includes advanced search and language tools that have become the staple of quality language apps from MobiSystems, Inc.
SEARCH TOOLS
- effortlessly find words thanks to a clear, functional, and easy-to-use interface.
Intelligent search integrates several tools to match or suggest what you are looking for:
• Search autocomplete helps find words quickly by displaying predictions as you type
• Keyword lookup allows you to search within compound words and phrases
• An automatic ‘Fuzzy filter’ to correct word spelling, as well as ‘Wild card’ ('*' or '?') to replace a letter or entire parts of a word
• Camera search looks up words in the camera viewfinder and displays results
• Share word definitions via installed apps on your device
LEARNING TOOLS
- engaging features that help you further enhance your vocabulary.
• ‘Favorites’ feature to create custom folders with lists of words from the extensive library
• ‘Recent’ list to easily review looked-up words
• ‘Word of the day’ section to expand your vocabulary daily
• Home screen widget provides random words at a glance
***This is a fully functional 30-day trial version***
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• Feature-complete license for unlimited time
• Offline mode
- look up words without an internet connection
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Reviews (28)
This is one of the best dictionaries by far! I had the physical format as a student- I still have it but is quite worn out! -and always turned to it whenever I had some spelling issues. Very good! Thank you!
Not really good for me... it suppose to be an offline app..and again no need to say the today's word is this one . I have my favorite words that I need to understand more but how long should I keep waiting for them?
Very easy & convenient to refer. Almost all popular idiums of daily usage are covered.
great app! good for all levels of learning the English language. Bravo
Good App. Need improvement in organized looks of the information. Regards.
The first word I searched for (unalloyed) wasn't in this dictionary. Not very impressive.
I'm very intrested when i use this app It's so nice and the think that man which had ideas for people good future is so nice
It dosent have any idiom but a big banner that shows premium membership
Like it a lot. Oxford rules. Great app!
search is much slow frequent ads
I am very interested in this dictionary,and also love it becauseit is learny
Worst app words. Everything is blocked in free version
Where the heck are the idioms??... Worst app waste of time aswell as data
Not user-friendly
Brilliant from the Developers
Need to much omprove for Idioms
You need to be free w o wifi connectiob
Nice and cool
This is an application to have
Need this to know meanings
just a bait to coerse you into giving them your money
cool. loved it
Idiot app of idioms. No idiom there.
Nice at times
Very annoying app. Wasted my mb.😴😟😟😟😟
It's nice
Several have mistakenly given this app a 1-star rating, thinking that it provides words and not idioms. This is not true. It actually makes it convenient by providing the user the option to search all idioms containing a word (which prompts people to think it's a 'word' dictionary and not an idiom dictionary. This is a good app for idioms.
I'm a word person. I use a lot of dictionaries. this is the only one I've used that demands money for basic use. It's a bit deceptive to present this app as though it is complete, when it is only a short trial. If it was better, I might actually pay for it, but there are other strange problems: *missing idioms, missing words. *sometimes when you look up an idiom, it just sends you to another word ("Feather in your cap" - see "feather").