Author(s): Bridget Heos
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 32
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Language: English
Date Published: 2012-10-01
Dimensions: 182.88 x 256.54 x 10.16mm
Publication City/Country: Minneapolis, United States
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Illustrations: Index; Illustrations, color; Illustrations, black and white

On cloud nine. A pretty penny. The sixty-four-thousand-dollar question. Have you heard these crazy expressions? People use them even when the sky is cloud-free and there are no pennies in sight! That's because these sayings are idioms--phrases that mean something different than what the words in them actually say. But don't let idioms put you at sixes and sevens. Let's explore a variety of idioms related to money and numbers and figure out what people really mean when they use them.