Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
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Now reissued and updated, this reference provides the reader with over 1100 of the best-known English proverbs from around the world. For this fourth edition, the explanatory material has been expanded and new proverbs added including "Another day, another dollar", "Bad things come in threes", "Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep" and "There is more than one way to skin a cat", with new illustrative quotations putting proverbs in their historical context.
Author: John Simpson
Format: Hardback, 448 pages
Published: 2004, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
Genre: Social Studies: General
Description
Now reissued and updated, this reference provides the reader with over 1100 of the best-known English proverbs from around the world. For this fourth edition, the explanatory material has been expanded and new proverbs added including "Another day, another dollar", "Bad things come in threes", "Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep" and "There is more than one way to skin a cat", with new illustrative quotations putting proverbs in their historical context.
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs