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Idiomatic Expressions: Relationships

Your search for information and meanings of idiomatic expressions related to relationships can be done using books and World Wide Web sites. An idiom is defined as "a speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements". (Source: yourdictionary.com http://www.yourdictionary.com/). There are many idiomatic expressions related to relationships. A few examples include:

blind date

go dutch

love is blind

pop the question

double date

lady killer

play hard to get

tie the knot

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on idioms, phrases, slang, and/or euphemisms. Listed below is a list reference books that may be useful in your research.

American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms

REF PE2839 .A46 2001

Jonathan David Dictionary of Popular Slang

REF PE2846 .P4

Dictionary of Contemporary Slang

REF PE3721 .T53

New Dictionary of American Slang

REF PE2846 .C46 1986

Dictionary of Euphemisms

REF PE1449 .H548 1995

NTC’s American English Learner’s Dictionary

REF PE 1628 .S5825 1998

Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk

PE1449 .R34 1981

NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary

REF PE2839 .S64 2000

Facts on File Dictionary of Clichés

REF PE 1689 .A48 2001

NTC’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

REF PE 2846 .S64 2000

Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and

Phrase Origins

REF PE1689 .H47 1997

Oxford Dictionary of Idioms

REF PE1464 .O94 2000

Hip and Hot! A Dictionary of 10,000

American Slang Expressions

REF PE2846 .S643 1998

Oxford English Dictionary

Ref PE1625 .087 1989

Internet Sites

Idiom Connection: Relationship/Love Idioms

http://www.idiomconnection.com/relationship.html

 

La Maison Anglaise

http://www.lamaisonanglaise.com/Affichage.aspx?idSection=13&idPage=76

 

Love and Dating Idioms

http://www.wordpower.ws/idioms/a.html

 

Merriam Webster Dictionary Online

http://www.m-w.com

 

Using English.com: Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/list.php

 

Word Power: English Idioms A-Z

http://www.wordpower.ws/idioms/a.html

 

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