"Eighteen years after publishing her enormously successful Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms , Sophia Lubensky has given us a significantly enlarged and revised edition. Anyone who explores the nearly 14,000 idioms included here, traces their past and current usage in a wide variety of contexts, compares them to their English equivalents, will once again be struck by the aptness of Ivan Turgenev's famous characterization of the Russian language as 'great, mighty, truthful, and free.'  The new edition will delight translators and others dealing professionally with Russia, teachers and students of Russian, and all who cherish Russian culture and its verbal core." --Henryk Baran, Professor of Russian Studies, University at Albany.