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Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs John Simpson

Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs By John Simpson

Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by John Simpson


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Summary

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. In addition to a history of each proverb, the thematic index aids use.

Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs Summary

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.

About John Simpson


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).

Table of Contents

Introduction; abbreviations; dictionary; bibliography; index

Additional information

GOR003955687
9780198605249
0198605242
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by John Simpson
Used - Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2003-10-30
448
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