About the book: 2000 / The Dictionary contains more than 2,000 popular expressions not recorded in standard phraseological collections. In one form or another, each of us uses these metaphorical, vivid phrases born from life itself. Sometimes they confuse with their frankness and naked physiology, but more often they amuse and decorate speech with unexpected imagery, helping to see what is happening in a different light, through the prism of self-irony, humor and ridicule..