Posted on 12/30/2016 10:16:58 AM PST by blam
Llena Holodny
December 30, 2016
William Shakespeare wrote a lot of great plays, but he also coined and popularized a lot of words and phrases that we still use to this day.
We put together a list of our 21 favorites. Check them out:
"Puking"
"The Seven Ages of Man: The Infant" by Robert Smirke, derived from a monologue in Shakespeare's "As You Like It."Wikimedia
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. ..."
How Shakespeare uses it: "Puking" was first recorded in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." It was likely an English imitation of the German word "spucken," which means to spit, according to Dictionary.com.
Modern definition: A synonym for the verb "to vomit."
Source: "As You Like It," Act 2, Scene 7
"Vanish into thin air"
Constantin Stanislavski as Othello.Wikimedia
"Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away. Go; vanish into air; away!" (Othello)
How Shakespeare uses it: The Clown says this to the musicians in "Othello" to make them go away.
But some have also suggested that there is a darker underlying meaning. Act 3 in Othello is the final act that suggests that all of this might have a happy ending. It gets pretty dark starting in Act 4. So the Clown might be symbolically asking musicians and all happy things to "vanish into thin air" because there's no more room for them in the play.
A similar phrase is also found in "The Tempest."
Modern definition: To disappear without a trace.
Sources: "Othello," Act 3, Scene 1, "The Tempest," Act 4, Scene 1
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What about “Wankel Rotary Engine?”
“There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark”
Hamlet...of course! :-)
“Brush Up Your Shakespeare”
Not all Alabama fans are surly.
Why not "Fat Air" or "Chubby Air" or "Mostly Fit but could stand to lose a few pounds" Air?
“The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven”
One of my favorites.
Would love to go to the source, but they apparently employ a moron as a web designer. The page gets whited out to display an ad that never gets delivered, or is somehow displayed off screen. Since they disable page up, page down, and arrows, I can’t get to the ad to display it nor get rid of it to read the content.
Damn script kiddies.
Would love to go to the source, but they apparently employ a moron as a web designer. The page gets whited out to display an ad that never gets delivered, or is somehow displayed off screen. Since they disable page up, page down, and arrows, I can’t get to the ad to display it nor get rid of it to read the content.
Damn script kiddies.
Surely you jest?
“Custom what they did begin Was with long use account no sin.”
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act I - Prologue
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Not exactly an “everyday phrase”, but a wise note on human nature.
On Christmas day my grand-daughter informed me that my beans were "dope" You can imagine my response until she explained that dope means they are really good.
I will never be able to understand this generation.
Winkle, winkle little Wankel
How I wonder if your crank’ll
Torque enough to turn itself
Or will you wind up on the shelf
John Dinkel, Road & Track magazine
Interesting how slang, like fashion, music, and all other pop culture, comes back around.
Did you ever write for Monty Python?
"Aye, now there's a good wench! Come, Kiss Me Kate!"
One of the many musicals I was in many, many moons ago.
Nah, just an old grouch! :)
Okay Jerry... it is not nice to call anything fat. Including air. Thin not so much.
Btw I am at the Dept store with the wife. She is trying on clothes. ;)
Ya. Fag has a different meaning now and might get you banned.
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