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100 Pretentious Proverbs (Paperback)

by Michael Powell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Prion Books Ltd (2 Jun 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1853754862
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853754869
  • Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 10 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 793,655 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Stun your friends into silence as you take the humble proverb and transform it into a display of linguistic acrobatics. Why use one word when ten will do? If you want to sound as though you've swallowed a dictionary, here are 100 simple proverbs and their verbose translations for you to memorize and regurgitate at dinner parties and social gatherings.

About the Author
Michael Powell is the author of several books both for children and adults, including High Society published by Prion in May 2002. Before becoming a writer he trained at RADA and spent several years as an internationally unknown actor and musical director. He lives with his wife and two children in Somerset.

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5.0 out of 5 stars very funny and clever, 6 Jun 2005
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This is a really funny and clever book. Michael Powell has taken 100 common proverbs and re-written them in the most hilariously complicated and pedantic way. For example,

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me." becomes . . . "Short lengths of wood and non-metallic mineral masses may inflict specific orthopaedic trauma but the use of onomastic syntax will never precipitate the onset of ontological distress."

"Don't cry over spilled milk." : "Forbear lachrymation with reference to lactose-rich beverages which have suddenly and involuntarily made contact with the ground."

"The early bird catches the worm." . . . "That shrewd warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered vertebrate which matutinally forsakes the pleasurable ease of its abode will ensnare a vermiculate creature."

"Two's company, three's a crowd." . . . "Intimacy may be missed when a tryst becomes triadic."

If you want to read the other 96 hilarious proverbs, I highly recommend you buy the book.

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