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   William Vetter to Michelle Bottorff   
   Re: idioms   
   24 Sep 14 21:27:27   
   
   From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 6:18:02 PM UTC-4, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   > William Vetter  wrote:   
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   > > > If there is, I want it.   
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   > > These are the closest that I can find easily...   
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   > > The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms   
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   > > Dictionary of 1000 Chinese Idioms   
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   > I will keep my eye out for copies.   
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   give me an email where you can take an attachment under about 2Mb.   
   There are a lot of books with "idioms" in the title, but you really need to   
   see them first to see if they're useful.   
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   > But those aren't as awesome as a book that gives me many different   
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   > languages at once.   :)   
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   Also most everything that I see is listed alphabetically by the foreign   
   language.   
      
   Yes, I want to find this.  When I have a character with English as the second   
   language, I want to back-translate some of the idioms.   
      
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