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BARRONaS
FOREIGN LANGUAGE GUIDES
2001 French and English Idioms
Third Edition
This volume offers two separate alphabetical listings, one English-to-French, the other French-to-English. In both youall find each idiom defined and followed by an illustrative senten[...]
Idiomatic speech undergoes constant change in all languages. Updated to reflect current informal written and spoken expressions in French, this pocket-size book presents approximately 2,000 idiomatic French expressions, followed up with their English translations and meanings.[...]
"This translation is based on Estienne de La Boaetie, De la servitude volontaire ou Contr'un, edited by Malcolm Smith, with additional annotation and a bibliography by Michel Magnien (Geneva: Librarie Droz, 2001)" -- Publisher.[...]