About this title: In this captivating tour of humanity's received wisdom, one of Britain's best-known and best-selling authorities on language, David Crystal, brings together more than 2,000 delightful proverbs from 110 countries--the first new book of world proverbs to appear in nearly eighty years. Here readers will find proverbs they have known all their lives--such as "Everything comes to those who wait" and "Once a crook, always as crook"--alongside such lesser known gems as "One generation plants the tree, another gets the shade" (China) or "When two elephants tussle, it's the grass that suffers" ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 9/4/2008
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008-09-04
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008
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Publisher: Harper Collins
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780007240982ISBN:0007240988
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