Chapter 4. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti-proverbs

In the present chapter I am going to discuss the ways how love after marriage is viewed and conceptualised in the body of Anglo-American proverbs and anti-proverbs (or proverb transformations), as well as in proverbs from around the world. My discussion is organised in two parts. While in the first part of the chapter I treat the paremiological issue of the metaphorical nature of proverbs, in the second part I address the relation between love and marriage in proverbs from around the world and Anglo-American anti-proverbs. I treat various metaphors of love which lead one to getting married (e.g.,