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!"
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Pickering is an experienced author and editor of general reference whose works range from The Dictionary of Superstitions to Cassell's Sports Quotes. With this compendium of concise, memorable, and thought-provoking sayings, he has revised and expanded his original 1997 edition from 3000-plus to 5000 proverbs drawn from many cultures and time periods. The alphabetically arranged entries list the first significant keyword in boldface, followed by the proverbs, also in boldface, with their meaning, country of origin, date of first appearance, subsequent usage, and cross references. New to this edition is a thematic index, allowing the reader to locate specific proverbs by subject. Similar to such works as The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (1998. 3d ed.), though with more entries, but still far less comprehensive than Burton Stevenson's now out-of-print Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases (1987), this source offers the general reader an abundance of succinct, accessible, informative, and authoritative data that are uniquely browsable. Recommended for language collections. Marilyn Rosenthal, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, NY
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
David Pickering is an experienced reference writer, researcher and editor, specialising in compiling arts and general reference books. His publications for Cassell include, Cassell Dictionary of Witchcraft, and, most recently, Cassell's Sport Quotations.
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