Cassell's Dicitonary of Proverbs by David Pickering (Author)
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ISBN: 9780304357383
Publisher : Cassell; 2nd edition (October 1, 2001)
Hardcover : 463 pages
You "don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth"--but you do want to look inside these pages to find over 5,000 entertaining and thought-provoking proverbs from around the world. Each article sets out to pinpoint what the saying means, where it originated, when it first appeared, and its subsequent history. A source of delight to casual browsers and for writers searching for that perfect pithy epigram--even if it's as obscure as "A pet lamb makes a cross lamb!" 6 3/4 X 9 1/8.