Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages) |
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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"" |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Proverbs, English.
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Proverbs, English. |
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Proverbs, American.
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Proverbs, American. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Mieder, Wolfgang.
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Shapiro, Fred R.
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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) |
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0300183356 (electronic book) |
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9780300136029 |
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0300136021 |
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9781280571152 |
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1280571152 |
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