Spears Richard A. NTC's American idioms dictionary: the most practical reference for the everyday expressions of contemporary American English

New York: NTC Pub. Group, 2000. — 638 p.Completely revised, updated, reorganized, and enlarged with 600 new entries. Essential for writers and learners of American English, it features a unique new format, an appendix of 500 fixed-order phrases--such as fast and furious --that cannot be reversed, and a Phrase-Finder Index for easy lookups of even partially remembered phrases.