Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by John Simpson

Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by John Simpson

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.

Jennifer Speake is a freelance writer. She is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases (1997) and of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (1999).

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ISBN 13	9780198605249
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Titel	Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Autor	John Simpson
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-01-01
Seitenanzahl	448
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