A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

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The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs Jennifer Speake is a freelance writer. She is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Foreign W ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs Edited by JENNIFER SPEAKE Previously co-edited with JOHN SIMPSON Fifth Edition ...

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Editor’s Preface The fifth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs represents the latest stage in Oxford University Press’s ...

On the other hand, recent pithy expressions of universal predicaments (when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a na ...

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Abbreviations used in the dictionary a ante (before) Apr. April Aug. August AV Authorized Version (of the Bible), 1611 BCP Book ...

Pt. part quot. quotation rev. revised Sept. September Ser. series St. Saint STS Scottish Text Society tr. translation (of) US Un ...

Introduction The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs provides a general history of proverbs in common use in Britain in the la ...

as dull as ditchwater), and aphoristic quotations (Power grows out of the barrel of a gun) are not included. Nevertheless, prove ...

choices open to the compiler. One method favoured in early dictionaries was a straight alphabetical sequence, starting with all ...

during its development: the first recorded use of the current form is always cited. Short headnotes are added when there is some ...

A A see who SAYS A must say B. abhors see NATURE abhors a vacuum. a-borrowing see he that GOES a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing. ab ...

abundance see out of the FULLNESS of the heart the mouth speaks. ACCIDENTS will happen (in the best-regulated families) 1700 VAN ...

accuser see a GUILTY conscience needs no accuser. acorn see GREAT oaks from little acorns grow. act see THINK global, act local. ...