A Dictionary of Proverbs

Author: John Simpson
Edition: 5
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199539537

A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

"Another day, another dollar," "There's no such thing as a free lunch," "Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep," "There is more than one way to skin a cat"--readers will discover a wealth of pithy proverbs in this entertaining and informative collection. Download A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. This unique dictionary contains more than 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English, based on research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes many new entries. With expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English and an emphasis on examples of actual usage, including the earliest evidence of each phrase, this dictionary is both wide-ranging Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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