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Do you want to learn Italian slang? No need to sudare sette
camicie. "Streetwise Italian Dictionary/Thesaurus" makes it easy!
Add spark to your everyday casual conversation by learning how to
use Italian slang and expressions appropriately. "Streetwise
Italian Dictionary/Thesaurus" gets you talking like you're cool
without getting you into hot water! Frustrated by Italian slang? No
need to calare le brache (lit., pull down one's pants - surrender),
chiudere bottega (lit. to close up shop - to give up), or perdere
le staffe (lit., to lose the stirrups - lose one's temper). With
this book, you can trovare l'America (lit., discover America - find
happiness). Inside you will find just the right expression you are
looking for instantly. And whimsical illustrations get the message
across with laugh-out-loud humor." Streetwise Italian
Dictionary/Thesaurus" is a cinch to use for quick reference or
browsing, featuring: more than 2,500 current terms and expressions;
A-Z thematic arrangement in 34 English themes and 158
subcategories; literal meanings, example sentences for context, and
entertaining exercises to develop active vocabulary; and helpful
illustrations of 12 typical Italian gestures. Italian-English
dictionary/index that cross-references all 2,500 terms and
expressions are included in the thesaurus. Worried you'll be called
un cervello di gallina (lit., hen's brain - not too smart)? Whether
you're a student, tourist, or business traveler, whatever the topic
of your conversation - be it art, health, sex, or work -
"Streetwise Italian Dictionary/Thesaurus" will have you comfortable
using slang and talking like you're "with it" in no time at all.
(lit., sweat seven shirts - work really hard).
The final volumes of a project begun in 1921 by the Board of Celtic
Studies of the University of Wales to produce the first standard
historical Welsh dictionary, these dictionaries present in
alphabetical order the vocabulary of the Welsh language from the
remnants of Old Welsh, through the abundant literature of the
Medieval and Modern periods, to the explosion of vocabulary arising
from the ever-increasing use of the language in all fields of
20th-century life. These references are the first standard
historical Welsh dictionaries. The vocabulary is defined in Welsh,
but English equivalents are also given. Detailed attention is given
to variant forms, common collocations, and etymology.
"The Exeter English-Russian Dictionary of Cultural Terms" is a
unique work of reference whose aim is to provide English speakers
who possess at least some knowledge of Russian with the Russian
equivalents of foreign and cultural terms in widespread use.
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