The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs

Collects more than one thousand English-language proverbs that arose in the 20th and 21st centuries, organized alphabetically by key words, and including information on date of origin, history, and meaning.

Autorentext
Charles Clay Doyle is associate professor of English, University of Georgia, and president of the Western States Folklore Society. Wolfgang Mieder is chair, Department of German and Russian, and professor of German and folklore, University of Vermont. He is founding editor of Proverbium:Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship. Fred R. Shapiro is associate librarian and lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School. He is author or editor of several previous books, including the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations.

Klappentext
"There are no second acts". "It takes a village to raise a child". "Life is just a bowl of cherries". We may think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising. This title deals with English language proverbs that originated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Zusammenfassung
This extensive collection of proverbs, all coined after 1900, reflects the experiences and perplexities of the modern world

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