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Shakespeare is credited with creating over 2,000 idioms still widely used today. Examples include: Green-eyed monster A fool's paradise In a pickle Too much of a good thing A foregone conclusion Fair play Eaten out of house and home Fight fire with fire High time Read Idiom in Figurative ...
Have you ever been 'in a pickle' or on what seemed like 'a wild goose chase'? These phrases come from the plays of the famous poet and writer William Shakespeare. Learn more about Shakespeare in this lesson. Explore our homework questions and answers library ...
Like a sprat in a pickle jug. A creel of eels, all ripples, Jumpy as a Mexican bean, Right, like a well-done sum. A clean slate, with your own face on. It’s a wonderful piece that hasn’t lost any of its appeal. In addition to the imagery, grammar and peculiarities it is al...
CAPTION: “Cordialls.” from Thomas Sheppey’s recipe book, Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.452, page 75.https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/24ms0t To clear the heart. Take a quantity of heartsease, and putt therto 3 times the quantity of sugar. make a conserve, and ...
It was 18 inches tall and contained 42,773 entries meaning that even if you couldn’t read it’s still pretty useful if you want to reach a high shelf.For the first time when people were calling you a “pickle herring”, ”a jobbernowl ” or a “fopdoodle” you could understand ...
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named William Shakespeare. Hamlet lends itself to reinterpretation more than, you know, Dickens, I would say, and Michael Almereyda had a brilliant idea. This is something, I remember when he first talked to me about it. He had this vision of Hamlet ...
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, is not a commanding figure in history, but she is an isolated and a well-defined one. She is what one of the precursors of Shakespeare calls “a diminutive excelsitude.” She was entirely out of sympathy with her age, and her talent was hampered an...
The meaning "dark area of the moon's surface" is attested from 1660s (seemare(n.2)); before the invention of telescopes they were supposed to be water. The phrasesea change"transformation," literally "a change wrought by the sea," is attested from 1610, first in Shakespeare ("The Temp...