I was confused about how to learn idioms and proverbs for a long time, as if I did English reading, idioms and proverbs came into my eyes from time to time, like butterfly in flowers, quite beautiful, but hard to capture, until I did some reach these day, all the resource point to Essential Idioms in English:
It contains idioms, phrasal verbs, and collocations. From the author’s note to the first edition: “Of course, the idioms chosen for study should be well within the student’s grasp and of practical value. Such expressions as “to carry coals to Newcastle” or “to wash one’s dirty linen in public,” while very colorful, do not give the student immediate facility in his everyday use of the language. Thus, only those idioms have been included in this book that are more or less basic. … For the purpose of this book I have simply assumed that an idiom is an expression which has a meaning different from that of the joined meanings of its component parts”.
I knew, my problem was solved, even better, I found an Anki package can help me to master all the idioms and proverbs in Essential Idioms in English:
This is the second great book I read from Longman, the first was Longman Essay Activator, so I did some research about Longman:
Pearson plc is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London. It was founded as a construction business in the 1840s but switched to publishing in the 1920s. It is the largest education company and was once the largest book publisher in the world. Pearson has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American Depository Receipts.
In 1957, Pearson bought the Financial Times and acquired a 50% stake in The Economist. It purchased the publisher Longman in 1968.
It went on to buy paperback publisher Penguin in 1970, and in 1972, children’s imprint Ladybird Books. Pearson bought rival educational publisher Pitman Publishing in 1985. In 1986, Pearson invested in the British Satellite Broadcasting consortium, which, a few years later merged with Sky TV to form a new company, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB).
so Financial Times, The Economist, Longman and Penguin books all belong to Pearson, a British multinational publishing and education company
