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Salt of the Earth
Country sayings are deeply rooted in our everyday language, as this collection shows. Dip inside and you'll find the origins of many familiar proverbs and time-honoured phrases associated with the weather and the passage of the seasons, farming and husbandry, animals and livestock, and the superstitions that once underscored so much country life. Widely used as many of the sayings may be, their origins and early meanings still hold surprises for the modern reader and cast an intriguing and revealing light on the lives of our rural forebears.
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