TY - GEN AU - Ekram Hassan AlAnwar Hussein AU - Maher Shafiq Farid , AU - Mohamed Mohamed Enani , TI - Contrast InEnglish Proverbs and Arabic proverbs / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ekram Hassan AlAnwar Hussein , KW - Arabic proverbs KW - Contrast KW - English Proverbs N1 - Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Arts - Department Of English; Issused also as CD N2 - A proverb is said to be a short well - known sentence or phase , which offers advice or presents a moral or states a general truthIt may be a short popular saying usually of unknown origin that express effectively some commonplace truthThe proverbs in English often had the status of universal truths and were used to confirm or refute an argumentThe Arabs gave proverbs in many situationsThese proverbs were said in their prose , verse , and speeches , at war , in peace and even in ordinary conversation - they possessed the faculty of eloquence UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -