Charles Clay Doyle Modern Proverbs sku-19335070 Hardcover

Charles Clay Doyle's The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs is a hardcover listed under All Manuals & Guides, SKU sku-19335070. It collects more than 1,400 English-language proverbs coined after 1900, including "You can't unring a bell," "It takes a village to raise a child," and "Life is just a bowl of cherries." The collection covers proverbs originating in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Researchers used electronic full-text databases not previously used for a project of this kind. Entries are arranged alphabetically by key words and give each proverb's earliest datable appearance, origin, history and meaning. The sayings range from mundane to sublime and from serious to jocular, covering many aspects of modern experience and contributing to today's oral traditions.