... language lab.The idioms are presented in reading, writing, speaking, and lis-tening activities because idioms occur in all these aspects of American English. People commonly believe that idioms are ... spokenEnglish, but idioms are used in literature, newspaper articles, adver-tisements, business reports, and academic publications.The idioms selected for this text are, for the most part, idioms thatoccur ... meant to be an exhaustive treatment of idioms inEnglish. It deals with verbal idioms exclusively, and only with seventy-three out of the more than 10,000 idioms that exist in the language.The...