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Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
In English the proverb (or rather the beginning of the proverb), If the shoe fits has been used as a title for three albums and five songs. Other English examples of using proverbs in music [188] include Elvis Presley's Easy come, easy go, Harold Robe's Never swap horses when you're crossing a stream, Arthur Gillespie's Absence makes the heart ...
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
"The Song of a Wandering Aengus" is set to music by Caroline Herring. '5 Songs on Poems by W.B.Yeats' composed by Dutch composer Carolien Devilee (A Faery Song, He wishes for the clothes of heaven, The lake isle of Innisfree, To his heart, bidding it have no fear & The everlasting voices)
Porter would frequently return to the list song form, notable examples include "You're the Top" from the 1934 musical Anything Goes, [25] [26] [27] "Friendship", one of Porter's wittiest list songs, from DuBarry Was a Lady, [28]: 483 and "Farming" and "Let's Not Talk About Love" both from Let's Face It!
The definition can also be extended to include not just oral epics, but latrinalia, many forms of childlore (skipping-rope rhymes, the words of counting-out games etc.), and limericks; [5] as well as including anonymous or improvised poems.
For example, oil the wheels and grease the wheels allow variation for nouns that elicit a similar literal meaning. [11] These types of changes can occur only when speakers can easily recognize a connection between what the idiom is meant to express and its literal meaning, thus an idiom like kick the bucket cannot occur as kick the pot .
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...