You Can't Get Blood Out of a Turnip

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A groundbreaking study of proverbs in African-American speech from slave times to the present.

Contains over 15,000 proverbs used in the United States and Canada which have British, classical, Biblical, and European origins

Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Can beggars be choosers? Is it always better late than never? Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sayings that offer advice or words of encouragement and are used in everyday English without much thought ever being given to their meanings, or indeed, usefulness.

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