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The 'proverbial comparison' is a proverbial sub-form based on the structure of the simile that commonly occurs in the form 'as X as y', e.g. as white as snow, as old as the hills, as cool as a cucumber. This paper discusses the nature of proverbial comparisons in the Irish Language.
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This page is a summary of: The Irish proverbial comparison ‘chomh + Adj + le + Np’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, October 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/zcph-2017-0006.
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