At the Eleventh Hour: And Other Expressions about Money and Numbers [Library Binding]
Bridget Heos 著
出版社:Lerner Publications
出版时间:2012-10
ISBN:9780761381648
词汇量:4152
页数:32
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虚构:非虚构
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On cloud nine. A pretty penny. The sixty-four-thousand-dollar question. Have you heard these crazy expressions? People use them even when the sky is cloud-free and there are no pennies in sight! That's because these sayings are idioms--phrases that mean something different than what the words in them actually say. But don't let idioms put you at sixes and sevens. Let's explore a variety of idioms related to money and numbers and figure out what people really mean when they use them.