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Author Doyle, Charles Clay, 1943-

Title The dictionary of modern proverbs / compiled by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary A volume of English-language proverbs that originated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Entries are organized alphabetically by key words, with information about the earliest datable appearance, origin, history, and meaning of each proverb.
Contents ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""How to Read the Entries""; ""PROVERBS""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; "" L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Appendix: Some No Longer “Modern� Proverbs""; ""Works Cited""
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Subject Proverbs, English.
Proverbs, English.
Proverbs, American.
Proverbs, American.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Mieder, Wolfgang.
Shapiro, Fred R.
Other Form: Print version: Doyle, Charles Clay, 1943- Dictionary of modern proverbs. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012 9780300136029 (DLC) 2011051982 (OCoLC)759174383
ISBN 9780300183351 (electronic book)
0300183356 (electronic book)
9780300136029
0300136021
9781280571152
1280571152