A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0820479470

A dictionary of Anglo-American proverbs and proverbial phrases found in literary sources of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Bryan, George B. and Wolfgang Mieder.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2005

870 pages

$104.95

Hardcover

PR468

This reference presents an assortment of Anglo-American proverbs and proverbial phrases found in nineteenth- and twentieth-century liter...

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