A dictionary of American proverbs

ISBN NO :-  0195053990
Book Name :-A dictionary of American proverbs 
Author Name :- Mieder kingsbury harder
Publisher :- Oxford university press
Year :-  1992
Edition :-First Edition 
Pager :- 709
Binding :- Hardcover
Condition :- Excellent
Category :- DICTIONARY
Sub Category :- 
Book code :-DBC 567 - A dictionary of American proverbs - WWW.DELHIBOOKCLUB.COM
Description :-A Dictionary of American Proverbs is a treasury of more than 15,000 sayings, adages, and maxims commonly used in popular speech in the United States and Canada. As the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written sources, it includes thousands of uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded as well as many thousands of traditional sayings that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature.
This unparalleled collection will delight the general reader as well as the specialist. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, geography, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance.
Field work on the Dictionary was conducted over thirty years under the direction of the Committee on Proverbial Sayings of the American Dialect Society and resulted in 15,000 records of proverbial texts which have been edited for this collection. The result is an invaluable reference for general readers and students, as well as cultural historians, folklorists, linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of literatu