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Traces the history of more than eleven hundred proverbs that are still in current use, offering detailed annotations and up-to-the-minute citations from around the English-speaking world.
By Jennifer Speake (editor)

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9780198605249 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 18, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of more than eleven hundred proverbs that are still in current use, offering detailed annotations and up-to-the-minute citations from around the English-speaking world.
9780521301725, titled "The Civilized Imagination: A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott" | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $19.99 | also contains The Civilized Imagination: A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott, The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

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9780198734901 | 6 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 24, 2015), cover price $17.95 | also contains The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

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9780199573158 | Hardcover with CD edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2009), cover price $1290.00

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By George W. Davidson (editor), M. A. Seaton (editor) and J. A. Simpson (editor)

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9781853263286 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd, January 1, 1998, cover price $7.99

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Covers British, American, and Australian slang and includes a date the word first appeared in print, its origin, and an illustrative quotation

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9780192800077 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1994), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Covers British, American, and Australian slang and includes a date the word first appeared in print, its origin, and an illustrative quotation

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The standard dictionary of the English language micrographically printed in one volume
By J. A. Simpson (editor) and E. S. C. Weiner (editor)

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9780198612582 | 2 sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 5, 1991), cover price $399.95 | About this edition: The standard dictionary of the English language micrographically printed in one volume

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A useful reference guide to proverbial language contains more than two thousand sayings currently in use, including one hundred new proverbs, and a new thematic index.
By J. A. Simpson (compiler)

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9780198661771 | 2 sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 17, 1992), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder' to 'Youth must be served'
9780198661313 | Concise edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1983), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of more than a thousand proverbs that are still in current use

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9780192818805 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 26, 1985, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of more than a thousand proverbs that are still in current use

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