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PROVERB IS AS PROVERB DOES
Published 2013-08-01“… This article examines the phenomenon of the movie catchphrase, arguing that many of these memorable, repeatable items draw both their form and their meaning from the proverb tradition. It particularly examines the movie Forrest Gump (1994), which coined such proverbial catch-phrases as “stupid is as stupid does” and “life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get,” and proposed fictive origins for modern proverbs such as “shit happens.” …”
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The Septuagint of 'Proverbs' - Jewish and/or Hellenistic proverbs? Concerning the Hellenistic colouring of 'LXX Proverbs'
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Proverbs and Identity: A Study of Hadoti Proverbs
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A proverb in need is a proverb indeed: Proverbs, textbooks and communicative language ability
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PROVERB TRANSLATION VS. PROVERB EQUIVALENCE AND RELEVANCE THEORY
Published 2016-08-01“…Proverbs are seen as texts in themselves. My analysis will target the ethnofields of ‘to buy’ and ‘to sell’ in English proverbs and their Romanian corresponding versions. …”
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Androcentrism of English proverbs and Anti-Proverbs with Gender Components
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The Neurology of Proverbs
Published 1990-01-01“…Current proverbs tests have conceptual and linguistic shortcomings, and few studies have been done to investigate the specific effects of neurological and psychiatric disorders on the interpretation of proverbs. …”
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Staging in Proverbs
Published 2015-12-01“…The article deals with a special type of proverbs which are coined as presentations similar to theatre performances. …”
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BEATRICE GRIMSHAW’S PROVERB SPLICER AND HER ARTFUL USE OF PROVERBS
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What makes a good proverb? On the birth and propagation of proverbs
Published 2022-03-01Subjects: Get full text
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