Wednesday, June 15, 2011

when i say no........Shakespeare coins it yes



  • All our yesterdays (Macbeth)




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


  • All's well that ends well (title)

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

  • As merry as the day is long (Much Ado About Nothing / King John)

  • 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 (Hamle

  • Refuse to budge an inch (Measure for Measure / Taming of the Shrew)

  • 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; quoted earlier by Erasmus and Queen Elizabeth


  • 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)


  • Forever and a day (As You Like It

  • For goodness' sake (Henry VIII)

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  • Best Phrases by Shakespeare............................Miss ur words really .........

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