This book and the topic - idioms in different languages - had such a great potential.But it was just a potential.What you get is only the English translation of the idioms (so how do you know the translators didn't suck or someone didn't pull their leg in translations?), and only from a handful o...
And though the following sentence might prevent further page turning, I’ll ask you to grant me some platitude. I’ll wrap things up, by tying together some loose ends. In these concluding remarks, I’ll speak up for idioms and their enduring popularity, and start to put idiom-ology onto a less infi...