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Further on in the Preface one reads that “major collections of wellerisms in some of the European languages are readily available” and the implication that what we have here is representative of the “rich British and American materials.”
Wellerisms are, essentially, what Americans would call Tom Swifties.
There are many things about modern life--air conditioning (in particular), electricity, indoor plumbing, supermarkets--that make me grateful to be living in the latter half of the 20th century and not back in the antediluvian or “good old” days so often pined for, and one of them is the knowledge (gained from the Introduction) that American newspapers and magazines published numerous short lists of wellerisms during the 19th century.
A Dictionary of Wellerisms
Proverbs can be interesting because they are a key to human wisdom and folly; wellerisms seem to have no redeeming qualities.