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Dictionary of Proverbs and Their Origins
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Linda Flavell
Categories: English language
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Kyle Cathie Limited

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This dictionary traces the origins and histories of over 400 proverbs, detailing the changes of meaning and usage that have occurred throughout each proverb's l
Dictionary of Proverbs and Their Origins
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Linda Flavell
Categories: Proverbs, English
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:

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A Dictionary of American Proverbs
Language: en
Pages: 1348
Authors: Wolfgang Mieder
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

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Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom -- it was
Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: William Morris
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-05-17 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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The Morrises, well-known lexicographers, published a dictionary of the same title in 1977, a revision of a three-volume work published between 1962 and 1971. Th
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: John Simpson
Categories: Proverbs, American
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "Youth must be served."