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Excerpt from French Idioms and Proverbs: A Companion to Deshumbert's Dictionary of Difficulties
I have placed an asterisk before all recognised pro verbs these will serve as a first course for those students who do not wish to read through the whole book at Once. In a few cases I have added explanations of English pro verbs during the eleven years I have been using the book I have frequently found that pupils were, for instance, as ignorant of to bell the cat as they were of attacher le grelot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
