The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

ISBN 10: 0192800027 / ISBN 13: 9780192800022

Verlag: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1994

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From "the more the merrier" to "there's no such thing as a free lunch", this guide contains over 1000 of the best-known English proverbs from around the world. For this new edition, many new quotations have been added to illustrate the proverbs and over 100 new proverbs are included for the first time. A new thematic index is also included to help one find proverbs on subjects ranging from bee-keeping to stress.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: About the Editors:
John Simpson is Co-Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Jennifer Speake is editor of many reference works, including A Dictionary of the Renaissance.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good
Auflage: 2nd Edition.