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An Exploration of the Elizabethan Age LANGUAGE CONTRIBUTIONS

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​Shakespeare’s Phrases and Expressions


A HEART OF GOLD
"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, a lad of life, an imp of fame; Of parents good, of fist most valiant."
--Henry V, Act IV, Scene i


ALL OF A SUDDEN
"I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible that love should of a sudden take such hold?"
--The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, Scene I

BREAK THE ICE
"If it be so, sir, that you are the man must stead us all and me amongst the rest, and if you break the ice and do this feat, achieve the elder, set the younger free for our access, whose hap shall be to have her will not so graceless be to be ingrate."
--The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, Scene II

CATCH A COLD
"Your hand; a covenant: we will have these things set down by lawful counsel, and straight away for Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and starve."
--Cymbeline, Act I, Scene iv

CRUEL TO BE KIND
"I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind."
--Hamlet, Act III, Scene iv

ELBOW ROOM
"Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow-room; It would not out at windows nor at doors."
--King John, Act V, Scene VI

FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE
"Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known the first and happiest hearers of the town, be sad, as we would make ye."
--King Henry VIII, Prologue

LOVE IS BLIND
"But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformed to a boy."
--The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene VI

NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
"'Tis neither here nor there."
--Othello, Act IV, Scene III

PUPPY DOG
"Here's a large mouth, indeed, that spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas, talks as familiarly of roaring lions as maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!"
--King John, Act II, Scene I

MORE EXPRESSIONS
  • Brave new world (The Tempest)
  • Be-all and the end-all (Macbeth)
  • Break the ice (The Taming of the Shrew)
  • Dead as a doornail (2 Henry VI)
  • Eaten me out of house and home (2 Henry IV)
  • Faint hearted (I Henry VI)
  • Flaming youth (Hamlet)
  • Forever and a day (As You Like It)
  • For goodness' sake (Henry VIII)
  • Full circle (King Lear)
  • The game is up (Cymbeline)
  • Give the devil his due (I Henry IV)
  • Good riddance (Troilus and Cressida)
  • Heart of gold (Henry V)
  • In my mind’s eye (Hamlet)
  • Jealousy is the green-eyed monster (Othello)
  • It was Greek to me (Julius Caesar)
  • Heart of gold (Henry V)
  • In a pickle (The Tempest)
  • In my heart of hearts (Hamlet)
  • In my mind's eye (Hamlet)
  • Infinite space (Hamlet)
  • Kill with kindness (Taming of the Shrew)
  • Knock knock! Who's there? (Macbeth)
  • Laughing stock (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
  • Lie low (Much Ado about Nothing)
  • Love is blind (Merchant of Venice)
  • Naked truth (Love's Labours Lost)
  • Neither rhyme nor reason (As You Like It)
  • One fell swoop (Macbeth)
  • [What] a piece of work [is man] (Hamlet)
  • Pomp and circumstance (Othello)
  • Play fast and loose (King John)
  • Refuse to budge an inch (Measure for Measure / The Taming of the Shrew)
  • Seen better days (As You Like It? Timon of Athens?)
  • Send packing (I Henry IV)
  • Snail paced (Troilus and Cressida)
  • A sorry sight (Macbeth)
  • Sweets to the sweet (Hamlet)
  • Too much of a good thing (As You Like It)
  • Wear my heart upon my sleeve (Othello)
  • What the dickens (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
  • What's done is done (Macbeth)
  • The world's my oyster (Merry Wives of Windsor)
DIRECTORY OF WORD LISTS
Golden Age of Elizabethan English
Golden Era Lexicon | Golden Era Alphabet
Shakespearean Lexicon |His Writing Devices
Words | Word Fails | Expressions | Idioms
Narrative of a Logophile Bardolatry
bardolatry refers to Shakespearean mania
RELATED POSTS
The Humor of a Shakespearean Insult
Shakespearean Translation of Star Trek ?