num_pages: 333
description: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs is a guide to current English proverbs old and new. Some 1000 proverbs (100 new to this edition) appear, in all their major variants, with their history traced in illustrative quotations. A new thematic index allows the reader to find proverbs dealing with particular subjects and situations as diverse as beauty and bee-keeping, warfare and weather.
language: English
title: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
titlecomplete: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Quick Reference)
genres: Reference, Language, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Oxford University Press