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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; 4 edition (22 April 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0198608942
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198608943
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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A proverb is a common saying which offers advice or presents a moral in a short or pithy manner. In the past, proverbs had the status of universal truths and were used to prove an argument: the fact that new proverbs are still coming into being shows how these neat expressions are still valued and used. Modern proverbs have many different origins (for example 'garbage in, garbage out' comes from computing, while 'there's no such thing as free lunch' comes from economics), but people still look for a vivid and concrete image to make their point. Now available in paperback, this brand new edition is a valuable updating and revision of the well-loved classic, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, with increased coverage of 1,100 proverbs. Presented in a thoroughly reader-friendly style yet staying true to the scholarly standards that have characterized earlier editions, it offers more detailed annotation and up-to-the-minute citations from around the English-speaking world. New additions include 'another day, another dollar', 'bad things come in threes', 'better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep', and 'there is more than one way to skin a cat', with new illustrative quotations putting proverbs in their historical context. This edition also contains a full thematic index.

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Jennifer Speake is a freelance writer. She is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases (1997) and of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (1999).

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent collection, 5 April 2008
By Wayne Redhart "Also on Twitter!" (West Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
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First things first, this is not a cookery book! My wife Doreen picked this up assuming it to be about eggs, proving that you should never judge a book by its cover. I was absolutely furious about her mistake at first. Failure may be a stepping stone to success but when it comes to my views on the dish that she prepared, discretion would be the better part of valour. Aside from imparting the knowledge that you cannot proceed without breaking eggs, I am sorry to say that this book left her completely in the dark about how to prepare an omelette.

Still, you win some and you lose some. In the end I realised that I had been making a mountain out of a molehill. Every cloud has a silver lining and her purchase of this book proved to be a blessing in disguise. It is most fortunate that I chose not to look a gift horse in the mouth, because this is an extremely good read. You will not find a more thorough volume of proverbs, for Speake left no stone unturned when carrying out her research. The introduction states that over two years of intensive work went into producing this volume, but Rome wasn't built in a day!

When I was a lad, my own father was rather big on his proverbs. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" was by far and away his favourite and he never tired of reciting it to anyone within earshot. Eventually this came back to haunt him however, when our own family fell tremendously into debt (not that this prevented the old stick in the mud from pestering people with the phrase every bit as frequently). Indeed, times were hard after my father was sacked from his position as a mortgage salesman, for persistent failure to meet with official targets.
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This book wasn't what I thought it was and wasn't a very interesting read. I thought it explained different proverbs but it doesn't, so not what I wanted.
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