The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

John Andrew Simpson

Oxford

2009

388 páginas

12h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780199539536

This unique and authoritative collection contains over 1,100 of the most widely-used proverbs in English with research drawing on the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. Lively and compelling, this book is filled with favourites - old and new - and with the fascinating history of each proverb through the ages.