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Oxford Paperbacks: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs is a guide to current English proverbs old and new. Some 1000 proverbs (100 new to this edition) appear, in all their major variants, with their history traced in illustrative quotations. A new thematic index allows the reader to find proverbs dealing with particular subjects and situations as diverse as beauty and bee-keeping, warfare and weather.

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Oxford Paperbacks: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, John Simpson

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1998
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New Edition
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English
Released
1998
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Paperback
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333
ISBN10
0192800841
ISBN13
9780192800848
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs is a guide to current English proverbs old and new. Some 1000 proverbs (100 new to this edition) appear, in all their major variants, with their history traced in illustrative quotations. A new thematic index allows the reader to find proverbs dealing with particular subjects and situations as diverse as beauty and bee-keeping, warfare and weather.