Shakespeare

[NoJo]

Quiz:
Which of these phrases was coined by Shakespeare?

 

[Guest]

Don't know, but petard and retard limes, or rather . . .

 

[Guest]

Quiz:
Which of these phrases was coined by Shakespeare?

It's gotta be the petard one. If it's not, it should be.

 

[gauchecritic]

At least all or most of them.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

not a huge fan of shakespeare. was it the doornail one?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

What is "All of the Above" for $200 Alex.

 

[Alex De Kok]

What is "All of the Above" for $200 Alex.

Huh?

Alex

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Huh?

Alex

Alex Trebek........this isn't Jeopardy???

 

[BlackShanglan]

Yon Cassius hath a lean and hungry look.

Sounds delicious to me.

Shanglan

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Most people don't realize that Shakespeare's also responsible for the expressions "farting through silk", "shitting in high cotton" and "hung like a fucking horse". They appear in his lost comedy, "Two Gentleman of Venice Beach", the quarto edition, in which Giggolo is described by Focaccio as being "so ugly his mama had to put a sheet over his head so sleep could creep up on him."

Shakespeare also wrote the words to "Surfin' Bird", which was a hit for the Trashmen in 1962 on the Blaze label.

---Zoot

 

[Black Tulip]

Good riddance, but I can't remember where or why. Was it Othello about Desdemona? Nice pair for the Loving Wives category, btw.

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[NoJo]

Come cookin' cousins, stoke the peat!
Boil the oil and beat the meat!

I've deep-fried fowl, a bucket-load.
This fowl is fair, it's laced with toad!

Shakspears loft comedie -- or Anythinge you want to

 

[BlackShanglan]

Most people don't realize that Shakespeare's also responsible for the expressions "farting through silk", "shitting in high cotton" and "hung like a fucking horse". They appear in his lost comedy, "Two Gentleman of Venice Beach", the quarto edition, in which Giggolo is described by Focaccio as being "so ugly his mama had to put a sheet over his head so sleep could creep up on him."

Shakespeare also wrote the words to "Surfin' Bird", which was a hit for the Trashmen in 1962 on the Blaze label.

---Zoot

Rolling! And not because my back itches.

... and "hung like a fucking horse".

Thanks for the honorable mention.

Shanglan

 

[NoJo]

ANSWER:

ABS hath it aright!

The first written record of ALL of the phrases is in a Shakepeare play.

Of course, whether he actually coined the phrases will never be known.

Here's a longer list:

All our yesterdays (Macbeth)

All that glitters is not gold (The Merchant of Venice)

As good luck would have it (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Bated breath (The Merchant of Venice)

Bag and baggage (As You Like It / Winter's Tale)

Bear a charmed life (Macbeth)

Be-all and the end-all (Macbeth)

Beggar all description (Antony and Cleopatra)

Better foot before ("best foot forward") (King John)

The better part of valor is discretion (I Henry IV; possibly already a known saying)

In a better world than this (As You Like It)

Neither a borrower nor a lender be (Hamlet)

Brave new world (The Tempest)

Break the ice (The Taming of the Shrew)

Breathed his last (3 Henry VI)

Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet)

Refuse to budge an inch (Measure for Measure)

Cold comfort (The Taming of the Shrew / King John)

Conscience does make cowards of us all (Hamlet)

Come what come may ("come what may") (Macbeth)

Comparisons are odorous (Much Ado about Nothing)

Crack of doom (Macbeth)

Dead as a doornail (2 Henry VI)

A dish fit for the gods (Julius Caesar)

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war (Julius Caesar)

Dog will have his day (Hamlet)

Devil incarnate (Titus Andronicus / Henry V)

Eaten me out of house and home (2 Henry IV)

Elbow room (King John; first attested 1540 according to Merriam-Webster)

Farewell to all my greatness (Henry VIII)

Faint hearted (I Henry VI)

Fancy-free (Midsummer Night's Dream)

Fight till the last gasp (I Henry VI)
Flaming youth (Hamlet)

Fool's paradise (Romeo and Juliet)

Forever and a day (As You Like It)

For goodness' sake (Henry VIII)

Foregone conclusion (Othello)

Full circle (King Lear)

The game is afoot (I Henry IV)

The game is up (Cymbeline)

Give the devil his due (I Henry IV)

Good riddance (Troilus and Cressida)

Jealousy is the green-eyed monster (Othello)

It was Greek to me (Julius Caesar)

Heart of gold (Henry V)

'Tis high time (The Comedy of Errors)

Hoist with his own petard (Hamlet)

Household words (Henry V)

A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse! (Richard III)

Ill wind which blows no man to good (2 Henry IV)

Improbable fiction (Twelfth Night)

In a pickle (The Tempest)

In my heart of hearts (Hamlet)

In my mind's eye (Hamlet)

Infinite space (Hamlet)

Her infinite variety (Antony and Cleopatra)

Infirm of purpose (Macbeth)

In a pickle (The Tempest)

In my book of memory (I Henry VI)

It is but so-so(As You Like It)

It smells to heaven (Hamlet)

Itching palm (Julius Caesar)

Kill with kindness (Taming of the Shrew)

Killing frost (Henry VIII)

Knit brow (The Rape of Lucrece)

Laid on with a trowel (As You Like It)

Laughing stock (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Laugh yourself into stitches (Twelfth Night)

Lean and hungry look (Julius Caesar)

Lie low (Much Ado about Nothing)

Live long day (Julius Caesar)

Melted into thin air (The Tempest)

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it ("There's a method to my madness") (Hamlet)

Milk of human kindness (Macbeth)

Make a virtue of necessity (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)

Ministering angel (Hamlet)

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows (The Tempest)

More honored in the breach than in the observance (Hamlet)

More in sorrow than in anger (Hamlet)

More sinned against than sinning (King Lear)

Murder most foul (Hamlet)

Murder will out (Hamlet)

Naked truth (Love's Labours Lost)

Neither rhyme nor reason (As You Like It)

Not slept one wink (Cymbeline)

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it (Macbeth)

[Obvious] as a nose on a man's face (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)

Once more into the breach (Henry V)

One fell swoop (Macbeth)

One that loved not wisely but too well (Othello)

Time is out of joint (Hamlet)

Out of the jaws of death (Twelfth Night)

Own flesh and blood (Hamlet)

Star-crossed lovers (Romeo and Juliet)

Parting is such sweet sorrow (Romeo and Juliet)

What's past is prologue (The Tempest)

What a piece of work is man (Hamlet)

Pitched battle (Taming of the Shrew)

A plague on both your houses (Romeo and Juliet)

Play fast and loose (King John)

Pomp and circumstance (Othello)

[A poor] thing, but mine own (As You Like It)

Pound of flesh (The Merchant of Venice)

Primrose path (Hamlet)

Quality of mercy is not strained (The Merchant of Venice)

Salad days (Antony and Cleopatra)

Sea change (The Tempest)

Seen better days (As You Like It? Timon of Athens?)

Send packing (I Henry IV)

How sharper than the serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child (King Lear)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (Sonnets)

Make short shrift (Richard III)

Sick at heart (Hamlet)

Snail paced (Troilus and Cressida)

Something in the wind (The Comedy of Errors)

Something wicked this way comes (Macbeth)

A sorry sight (Macbeth)

Sound and fury (Macbeth)

Spotless reputation (Richard II)

Stony hearted (I Henry IV)

Such stuff as dreams are made on (The Tempest)

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep ("Still waters run deep") (2 Henry VI)

The short and the long of it (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Sweet are the uses of adversity (As You Like It)

Sweets to the sweet (Hamlet)

Swift as a shadow (A Midsummer Night's Dream

Tedious as a twice-told tale (King John)

Set my teeth on edge (I Henry IV)

Tell truth and shame the devil (1 Henry IV)

Thereby hangs a tale (Othello; in context, this seems to have been already in use)

There's no such thing (?) (Macbeth)

There's the rub (Hamlet)

This mortal coil (Hamlet)

To gild refined gold, to pain the lily ("to gild the lily") (King John)

To thine own self be true (Hamlet)

Too much of a good thing (As You Like It)

Tower of strength (Richard III)

Towering passion (Hamlet)

Trippingly on the tongue (Hamlet)

Truth will out (The Merchant of Venice)

Violent delights have violent ends (Romeo and Juliet)

Wear my heart upon my sleeve (Othello)

What the dickens (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

What's done is done (Macbeth)

What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (Romeo and Juliet)

What fools these mortals be (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

What the dickens (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

Wild-goose chase (Romeo and Juliet)

Wish is father to that thought (2 Henry IV)

Witching time of night (Hamlet)

Working-day world (As You Like It)

Yeoman's service (Hamlet)

 

[Guest]

So, what your actually saying is: Shakespeare is the root cause of all those over-used cliche-ridden phrases that pop up when we least suspect and annoy the hell out of us. Shame on him.

 

[English Lady]

Or Shakespeare used alot of cliche's in his work because he was so popular you'd expect him to use the popular phrases of the day in his plays...

 

[BlackShanglan]

Or that once upon a time, quite a lot of people read or saw quite a lot of his plays. More's the pity that that habit is lost.

Now, let's see who knows (without Google, to be sporting) what author is responsible for the phrases "gone with the wind" and "days of wine and roses."

Shanglan

 

[minsue]

Or that once upon a time, quite a lot of people read or saw quite a lot of his plays. More's the pity that that habit is lost.

Now, let's see who knows (without Google, to be sporting) what author is responsible for the phrases "gone with the wind" and "days of wine and roses."

Shanglan

I've no self control. I cheated.

Does it help that I feel that much more enlightened now?

 

[BlackShanglan]

I've no self control. I cheated.

Does it help that I feel that much more enlightened now?

Enlightenment is a jewel beyond price - especially if it leads you to read "Cynara."

Shanglan

 

[Black Tulip]

Or that once upon a time, quite a lot of people read or saw quite a lot of his plays. More's the pity that that habit is lost.

Now, let's see who knows (without Google, to be sporting) what author is responsible for the phrases "gone with the wind" and "days of wine and roses."

Shanglan

Glad I can plead innocence on cultural grounds. LOL

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[minsue]

Enlightenment is a jewel beyond price - especially if it leads you to read "Cynara."

Shanglan

Indeed, though at first glance I believe I prefer Vitae Summa.... I shall have to read them over and over to make an informed decision, though.

 

[minsue]

Glad I can plead innocence on cultural grounds. LOL

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I find my lack of culture helps me regularly in social situations...

 

[BlackShanglan]

Indeed, though at first glance I believe I prefer Vitae Summa.... I shall have to read them over and over to make an informed decision, though.

By far the best policy. If you find "The Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration," I think that also very fine. It's hard to go wrong with (ANSWER TO TRIVIA QUESTION ABOVE) Dowson.

Shanglan

 

[Black Tulip]

I find my lack of culture helps me regularly in social situations...

*shaking head*
I always thought you needed social graces?
Or is that what you're talking about?

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