For every learner who has wasted dictionary time looking up the individual parts of a Spanish saying only to have the whole add up to nonsense, "The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms "provides innovative and easy access to scores of turns-of-phrase and their idiomatic English equivalents.With more than 4, 000 Spanish expressions arranged by keyword, numerous example sentences, and an extensive index for cross-referencing, you can quickly find phrase-based translations by way of either English or Spanish. Compact and comprehensive, this tool is perfect for a student's backpack or a translator's briefcase.