The Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms is a dictionary that opens the door to American English idioms. It includes more than 5,500 idioms that are used in current newspapers, magazines, and books; on radio and TV; on Web pages, and in informal conversation. It contains simple, easy-to-understand definitions and more than 1,000 usage notes that explain what idioms mean and how they are used in American English today. It features a two-color page design that makes it easy to use and colorful illustrations that bring idioms to life; and it illustrates how idioms are really used, with more than 8,000 example sentences taken from the Cambridge International Corpus, a database that contains over 200 million words of spoken and written American English.