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daughter “, children often take after their parents.
Many proverbs summarize knowledge of people’s daily life such as the
best win comes out of an old vessel; Soft fire makes sweet malt. As people’s
daily life is complicated and extremely trifling, such proverbs are numerous.
They summarize people’s knowledge in their life and they tell people what to do
and how to do. They are just like an encyclopedia to guide people’s daily life.
People’s who have similar habits, interests, inclinations are likely to spend much
time together and be engaged in the same activities. Birds of a feather flock
together.
Many English proverbs involve events or characters of English literature,
especially from Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s insight into human beings, his
sensitivity to the problem of state and his genius with words have left an
everlasting mark on the English language and the thinking of English speaking
people all over the world. Shakespeare’s works are probably the most colorful
literature origin of proverbs. For example, violent delights have violent ends is
from Shakespeare’s works “Romeo and Juliet”. In this masterpiece we can see
many proverbs too. Let mischance be slave to patience, i.e. we try to suffer all
misfortunes.
So English proverbs have very rich and different sources of enlarging
which make them brighter and colorful, providing interests to a people’s
traditions, history and attitudes. In conclusion I want to say, that our study has
shown the history of phraseological units are great. It is necessary to analyze the
phraseological units and their creative variations. With regard to the corpus
search, the collected units result to be not common in discourse even if they are
widely known by users. For example, we can note the rarity of before you can
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