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TITLE:
The Oxford dictionary of proverbs / edited by Jennifer Speake.
Alternate Title:
Dictionary of proverbs
Publication Date:
2008, 1982
Publication Information:
Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press,
Edition:
5th ed.
Physical Description:
388 p.
Additional Contributors:
Summary:
"Another day, another dollar," "There's no such thing as a free lunch," "Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep," "There is more than one way to skin a cat"--readers will discover a wealth of pithy proverbs in this entertaining and informative collection. This unique dictionary contains more than 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English, based on research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780199539536