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Wellerisms are, essentially, what Americans would call Tom Swifties.
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.
A Dictionary of Wellerisms
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!)...