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Title: DO UNTO OTHERS...THEN RUN
A LITTLE BOOK OF TWISTED PROVERBS AND SAYINGS
By: Gerd de Ley, David Potter
Format: Paperback

List price: £3.99


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ISBN 10: 185375434X
ISBN 13: 9781853754340
Publisher: PRION BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 27 July, 2001
Series: Prion humour
Pages: 128
Description: Some of the most famous wits in history have taken to adapting or building upon well-worn and everyday expressions that we all know and giving them new life by subverting them for their own purposes. The compilers of this book have sought out the finest of these revised proverbs and phrases.
Synopsis: Some of the most famous wits in history have taken to adapting or building upon well-worn and everyday expressions that we all know and giving them new life by subverting them for their own purposes. The compilers of this book have sought out the finest of these revised proverbs and phrases from Sam Goldwyn's mixed metaphors to John Lennon's nonsense and Dorothy Parker's barbed girl-power cynicism.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Prion Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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