 This was first used in his "Spanish and English Dictionary of Idioms" and in "The new Dictionary of Current Sayings and Proverbs, Spanish and English", foreworded by John Simpson, of the University of Oxford.For over twenty years, Carbonell Basset was the Director of the Marshall Institute of Languages in Madrid, Spain.Ed.of La lengua de Cervantes, Julio Cejador, with Dr. James A. Parr (ED.