Author: Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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A collection of British and American proverbs that are currently in use.

Author: Robert Allen
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141917687
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2108

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Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken. Taking over 6000 phrases, it explains their meaning, explores their development and gives citations that range from the Venerable Bede to Will Self. Crisply and wittily written, the book is packed with memorable and surprising detail, whether showing that 'salad days' comes from Antony and Cleopatra, that 'flavour of the month' originates in 1940s American ice cream marketing, or even that we’ve been 'calling a spade a spade' since the sixteenth century. Allen’s Dictionary of English Phrases is part of the Penguin Reference Library and draws on over 70 years of experience in bringing reliable, useful and clear information to millions of readers around the world – making knowledge everybody’s property.

Author: Raymond Ackerman
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1868424405
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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When Raymond Ackerman was fired from his job in 1966, he persuaded a group of friends to loan him the money to buy three small Pick 'n Pay stores, which at the time employed a total of 175 people. On his retirement, 44 years later, he had changed the face of southern African retailing, growing his company to encompass 792 stores in eight countries, employing more than 60 000 people, and generating an annual turnover of around R60 billion. In A Sprat to Catch a Mackerel: Key principles to build your business, Raymond Ackerman shares the basic tenets behind his business philosophy - timeless principles that have guided him through some of South Africa's most turbulent times. Whatever your business background or interest, the practical, accessible advice in this book will help you define and build your vision, and help you reach success and self-actualised growth - not by chasing profit, but by giving expression to a driving passion. Rated by the Financial Times as among the World's Top 100 Most Respected Businessmen, Raymond Ackerman is also the first South African ever to receive the International Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. In 2009, his company was voted the World's Best Retailer by the National Retail Federation (NRF). Raymond Ackerman is also the author of the best-selling memoir Hearing Grasshoppers Jump, and The Four Legs of the Table, in which he recounts how he built Pick 'n Pay into one of the most respected brands in the world today.

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Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788186062074
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Teodor Flonta
Publisher: DeProverbio.com
ISBN: 146590803X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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This dictionary assembles 2,234 English proverbs and their French equivalents. Equivalent proverbs are those which express the same concept literally, such as “Love is blind” = “L’amour est aveugle” or with completely different words, such as “Every cloud has a silver lining” = “Dans toute chose il y a un bon côté.” The Dictionary is a very useful reference tool for scholars of the two languages, for researchers working in various associated fields such as linguistics, literature, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, and for workers in newer areas such as advertising and contemporary media. The Dictionary is also of interest to diplomats and politicians who try to improve their communication by sharing ideas formulated in some common meaningful expressions; it will assist interpreters and translators, and teachers and students for whom it is important to understand not only what the target culture expresses in the same way as their own, but also what is formulated in a different way. The Dictionary is also of benefit to non-professionals who, for the sheer enjoyment of it, wish to savour the wisdom, wit, poetry and the colourful language of proverbs.

Author: C. M. Schwarz (ed)
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853263095
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Has more than 600 phrases, sayings, and expressions and contains explanations.

Author: Frank H. Vizetelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: John William Kirton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: Church of England temperance society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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