Random House dictionary of popular proverbs & sayings
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New York : Random House, [1996].
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First edition.
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xi, 468 pages ; 25 cm
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Lists over fifteen hundred proverbs and sayings in current American usage, along with thousands of sample citations from books and newspapers

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Titelman, G. (1996). Random House dictionary of popular proverbs & sayings. First edition. New York, Random House.

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Titelman, Gregory. 1996. Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs & Sayings. New York, Random House.

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Titelman, Gregory. Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs & Sayings. First edition. New York, Random House, 1996.

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5052 |a Abandon all hope, ye who enter here; Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Accentuate the positive; Actions speak louder than words; After a storm comes a calm; All chiefs and no Indians; All for one and one for all; All good things come to those who wait; All good things must come to an end; All hell broke loose; All men are created equal; All or nothing; All quiet on the western front; All's fair in love and war; All's well that ends well; All that glitters is not gold; All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; Look on the bright side; Put your best foot forward; Another day, another dollar; Any port in a storm; Anything worth doing is worth doing well; Apple a day keeps the doctor away; Apple doesn't fall far from the tree; April showers bring May flowers; As you sow, so (shall) you reap; Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies; Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country; Bad news travels fast; Bad penny always turns up; Ball is in your court; Barking dogs never bite; Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down; Beauty is only skin-deep; Believe only half of what you see and nothing you hear; Best defense is a good offense; Best is yet to be; Best things come in small packages; Best things in life are free; Better a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond;
5052 |a Better late than never; Better luck next time; Better safe than sorry; Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know; Between a rock and a hard place; Between the devil and the deep blue sea; Big Brother is watching you; Bigger they are, the harder they fall; Birds of a feather flock together; Blood is thicker than water; Boys will be boys; Brother can you spare a dime; Buck stops here; Business as usual; Business before pleasure; Cat has nine lives; Cat is out of the bag; Catch-22; Chain is no stronger than its weakest link; Charity begins at home; Check is in the mail; Chickens have come home to roost; Choose the lesser of two evils; Clean bill of health; Close but no cigar; Cold hands, warm heart; Coward dies a thousand deaths; Crime doesn't pay; Curiosity killed the cat; Customer is always right; Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead; Dead men tell no tales; Different strokes for different folks; Do as I say, not as I do; Do or die; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; Dog eat dog; Don't add insult to injury; Don't air your dirty linen in public; Don't bite off more than you can chew; Don't call us, we'll call you; Don't cry over spilled milk; Don't get mad, get even; Don't jump from the frying pan into the fire; Don't make a mountain out of a molehill; Don't put the cart before the horse; Don't stick you neck out; Don't take any wooden nickels;
5052 |a Throw out the baby with the bath water; Wear your heart on your sleeve; You might just get what you wished for; Early bird catches the worm; Easier said than done; Easy come, easy go; Elephant never forgets; End justifies the means; Everyone has his fifteen minutes; Everything but the kitchen sink; Eyes are bigger than the stomach; Familiarity breeds contempt; Family that prays together stays together; Feed a cold, starve a fever; Fight fire with fire; Finders keepers, losers weepers; First, do no harm; First things first; Fish or cut bait; Fools rush in where angels fear to tread; A friend in need is a friend indeed; Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself; Give me a break; Give the devil his due; Go for it; God helps those who help themselves; Good riddance to bad rubbish; Good, the bad, and the ugly; Guns don't kill people, people do; Cat got your tongue; He who hesitates is lost; He who lives by the sword dies by the sword; Heads I win, tails you lose; Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; Hold your horses; How does that grab you; I have news for you; I need that like I need a hole in my head; I was not born yesterday; I wouldn't give him the time of day; I wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole; If a pig had wings; If it ain't broke, don't fix it; If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times; If you don't like, you can lump it;
5052 |a If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem; I'm from Missouri, you've got to show me; Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; It runs in the family; It takes two to tango; Drop in the bucket; Piece of cake; It's a small world; Like taking candy from a baby; None of your business; No skin off my nose; Straw that breaks the camel's back; Real McCoy; Tip of the iceberg; Too little, too late; Jack of all trades and master of none; Justice is blind; Keeping up with the Joneses; Kilroy was here; Leave well enough alone; Let bygones by bygones; Let's face it; Get the show on the road; Like father, like son; Live and let live; Look before you leap; Lord gives and the Lord takes away; Love is blind; Make hay while the sun shines; As old as he feels; Man's got to do what a man's got to do; Monday morning quarterbacking; Money burns a hole in his pocket; Money doesn't grow on trees; Money is no object; Money is the root of all evil; More things change, the more they stay the same; Mum's the word; My dear, I don't give a damn; Nature abhors a vacuum; Necessity is the mother of invention; Never give a sucker an even break; Never say never; Never tell tales out of school; New broom sweeps clean; Nice guys finish last; No good deed goes unpunished; No ifs, ands or buts; no man is an island; No news is good news; No pain, no gain; No problem; No sweat; Nothing is certain but death and taxes; Nothing to write home about; Old soldiers never die, they just fade away; One good turn deserves another; One man's trash is another man's treasure; The only thing we have to fear is fear itself; Opposites attract; Out of sight, out of mind; Paddle your own canoe; unpunished; No ifs, ands or buts; no man is an island; No news is good news; No pain, no gain; No problem; No sweat; Nothing is certain but death and taxes; Nothing to write home about; Old soldiers never die, they just fade away; One good turn deserves another; One man's trash is another man's treasure; The only thing we have to fear is fear itself; Opposites attract; Out of sight, out of mind; Paddle your own canoe; unpunished; No ifs, ands or buts; no man is an island; No news is good news; No pain, no gain; No problem; No sweat; Nothing is certain but death and taxes; Nothing to write home about; Old soldiers never die, they just fade away; One good turn deserves another; One man's trash is another man's treasure; The only thing we have to fear is fear itself; Opposites attract; Out of sight, out of mind; Paddle your own canoe; Party's over; Peter principle; Possession is nine points of the law; Practice what you preach; Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition; Put that in your pipe and smoke it; Put your money where your mouth is; Rats desert a sinking ship; Read my lips; Rest is history; Rich get richer and the poor get poorer; Road to hell is paved with good intentions; Rob Peter to pay Paul; Rotten apple spoils the barrel; Rube Goldberg machine; Save for a rainy day; Say uncle; See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; Seeing is believing; Ships that pass in the night; Sh-t hits the fan; Shoe is on the other foot; Silence is golden; Sky's the limit; So far, so good; Can't see the wood for the trees; Sow your wild oats; Spare the rod and spoil the child; Speak softly and carry a big stick; Stand on your own two feet; Step on a crack and break your mother's back; Stick to your guns; Still waters run deep; Strike while the iron is hot; Sun never sets on the British empire; Swan song; Take it or leave it; Talk is cheap; Tempest in a teapot; Thanks, but no thanks; That's show business; That's that; That's the $64,000 question; That's the way the cookie crumbles; Too close for comfort; More than one way to skin a cat; Other fish in the sea; Honor among thieves; Black sheep; Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; Light at the end of the tunnel; Room at the top; More to it than meets the eye; No free lunch; Nothing new under the sun; Safety in numbers; Third time is the charm; Til death us do part; Time flies; Time heals all wounds; Time is money; Time will tell; Too many cooks spoil the broth; Truth is stranger than fiction; Two is company, three is a crowd; Virtue is its own reward; Walls have ears; War is hell; Warts and all; Watched pot never boils; Way to a man's heart is through his stomach; Way to go; What goes around, comes around; What goes up must come down; What will be, will be; What you don't know can't hurt you; What you see is what you get; What's done is done; What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; When in doubt do nothing; When the going gets tough, the tough get going; Where there's a will, there's a way; Where there's smoke, there's fire; Where's the beef; Win this one for the Gipper; Winner never quits, and a quitter never wins; Wolf in sheep's clothing; Word to the wise; Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus; Your are what you eat; You better believe it; You can run, but you can't hide; You can say that again; You can't fight city hall; You can't go home again; You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs; You can't please everybody; You can't take it with you; You could hear a pin drop; You have to learn to crawl before you can walk; You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours; You win some, you lose some; Damned if you do, and damned if you don't; Your guess is as good as mine; You've come a long way, baby; You've made your bed, now lie in it.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-405) and index.
Description
Lists over fifteen hundred proverbs and sayings in current American usage, along with thousands of sample citations from books and newspapers