Modern Proverbs Appeal

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Sam Clements wrote:

> "It's showtime!"

I appreciate the responses that have been posted to my appeal, and don't
really mind getting irrelevancies, but in the interest of fostering
knowledge of paremiology let me just mention that most of the items
mentioned in the responses are not proverbs.

Fred Shapiro


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