Modern Proverbs Appeal

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu May 24 16:04:04 UTC 2007


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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