Dictionary of European proverbs
By: collected by Emanuel Strauss.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Proverbs, European.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Over 50,000 proverbs in 70 European languages and dialects arranged in around 2,500 sets of semantic equivalents.
Table of contents: title: v. 1, pt. 1. European proverbs, A bad beginning makes a bad ending-Call no man happy before he dies; title: v. 2, pt. 2. European proverbs, Call no man unhappy until he is married-You can't milk a bull; title: v. 3. Select bibliography, index.