A dictionary of American proverbs:

A treasury of more than 15,000 sayings, adages, and maxims commonly used in popular speech in the U.S. and Canada. As the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written sources, it includes thousands of uniquely American proverbs that have never...

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Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 1992
Schriftenreihe:Oxford paperback reference
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Zusammenfassung:A treasury of more than 15,000 sayings, adages, and maxims commonly used in popular speech in the U.S. and Canada. As the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written sources, it includes thousands of uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded as well as many thousands of traditional sayings that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European and American literature. Extensive bibliography lists both primary and secondary sources.
Beschreibung:XVIII, 710 S.
ISBN:0195053990
0195111338

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