Frank Carlson Library

This work contains more than 15,000 proverbs in common use in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to uniquely American proverbs, it includes. . . traditional proverbs that have found their way into American usage from British, classical, biblical, and European literature. . . . The fieldwork on which this volume is based was done from the early 1940s through the end of the 1970s by the American Dialect Society. Over 150,000 citations were collected....