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“The best things in life are fee.” Some aspects of punning in Anglo-American anti-proverbs

The European Journal of Humour Research
For centuries, proverbs have provided a framework for endless transformation. In recent decades, proverb modification has taken such proportions that sometimes we can even meet more proverb transformations than traditional proverbs.
Anna T. Litovkina
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The Neurology of Proverbs

Behavioural Neurology, 1990
Although proverb tests are commonly used in the mental status examination surprisingly little is known about either normal comprehension or the interpretation of proverbial expressions. Current proverbs tests have conceptual and linguistic shortcomings, and few studies have been done to investigate the specific effects of neurological and psychiatric ...
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VARIABILITY AND MODIFICATION OF PROVERBS IN THE BULGARIAN MASS MEDIA

Proverbium, 2015
The present research deals with the variability and modification of Bulgarian proverbs in terms of a systematic approach in linguistics. A detailed analysis of proverb usage in the mass media shows that a proverb system undergoes both quantitative and ...
Marina Vager
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“A NIGHTINGALE CANNOT SING IN A CAGE” – OR CAN IT?

Proverbium, 2021
The international proverb “A nightingale (or other bird) cannot (does not, will not) sing in a cage” is several centuries old—prevalent in English since the eighteenth century—though rebuttals or exceptions to the proverb, both popular and “scientific,”
Chlarles Clay Doyle
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[proverb] 03

, 2014
A proverb from the Democratic Republic of ...
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Pragmatic Failure in Interpreting Some Proverbs found in SMAN 1 Lubuk Alung

Arbitrer, 2018
Phenomenon of using proverb in academic environment particularly school is usual right now. Not only using Indonesian proverb but also using English proverb, students are interested to apply them.
Yeyep Natrio
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The Elderly in Proverbs

Linguistica
From a methodological and folkloristic perspective, the article explores attitudes toward older people and aging in Slovene and Estonian proverbs based on archival paremiological material collected from the second half of the 19th century to the present day. Various aspects of old age and ageing are also reflected in the rich tradition of proverbs.
Babič, Saša, Voolaid, Piret
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“Heaven is as Near . . . ”: The Evolution of an English Proverb [PDF]

, 2015
The proverb “We are as near Heaven by sea as by land,” or “The way to Heaven is the same from all places,” or the formula “Heaven is as close to X as to Y” entered the English language toward the end of the fifteenth century.
Doyle, Charles Clay
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The Concept of 'Absurdity' as Reflected in Persian and Arabic Proverbs [PDF]

پژوهش‌های ترجمه در زبان و ادبیات عربی, 2012
"Proverb" is considered as a literary-lingual topic that has outstanding status in Iranian and Arabic culture.Iranian and Arab proverb writers have tried to collect and record proverbs.
Mahmood Mirza'i al-Hosseini
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A created proverb in a novel becomes broadly used in society: “'Easily in but not easily out', as the lobster said in his lobster pot.”

Crossroads, 2014
C.S. Lewis created several proverbs in his novel The Horse and His Boy. One of these has now become broadly used in English-speaking society. This article cites evidence that this new proverb is now being used in novels, poetry, short stories, blogs, and
Peter Unseth
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