The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192819151 ISBN 13: 9780192819154

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1985

Synopsis

Now reissued and updated, this reference provides the reader with over 1000 of the best-known English proverbs from around the world. For this third edition, the explanatory material has been expanded and new proverbs added including "Never say never", "It takes one to know one", "The devil is in the details", and "If you want something done, ask a busy person". In addition to a history of each proverb, the thematic index helps you find proverbs on subjects ranging from boasting to weddings

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Review

"brilliantly arranged ... I recommend it without hesitation to all students of the English language and lovers of literature, as well as to pedants, crossword fanatics and those who like to prove people wrong in argument." -- Auberon Waugh, Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

About the EditorsJohn Simpson is Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He is the editor, with John Ayto, of the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang. Jennifer Speake is a freelance writer. She is the editor of the Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases and is currently preparing a dictionary of idioms, to be published by OUP in 1999.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192819151
• ISBN 13: 9780192819154
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Simpson J. A.