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In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy (the knife for surgery, the crown for royalty), synecdoches (sixty head of cattle, a cut-throat), and swearing (bloody bugger!)...
Proverbs can be interesting because they are a key to human wisdom and folly; wellerisms seem to have no redeeming qualities.
The Preface describes the book as “the first book-length collection of wellerisms in the English language”; unless reasoning man can find a way to put this information to good and useful purpose, it may well be the last.
Wellerisms are, essentially, what Americans would call Tom Swifties.
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.”