This is from "World Wide Words", noted in the links to your right. Please have a look at Michael's site. It is fascinating
The word was allegedly coined by Maxine Groffsky and is presumably a blend or portmanteau from perverse proverb. You create one by snapping a couple of existing proverbs in half and joining the end of one to the beginning of the other. My favourite is “The road to Hell wasn’t paved in a day”.
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