Phrases that Shakespeare invented

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Mr. Hendrick

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Nov 18, 2012, 4:34:33 PM11/18/12
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Task: Find everyday phrases that were invented by Shakespeare. 


For example: "A foregone conclusion" 

athertd

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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HenryM

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A sorry sight
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Luke Hersov

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HDAkHuFjvIdhETM4phw5-p-zsfxpebX0y7oefeScc1w/edit

Luke Hersov,
The Talbot
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atkinsa

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All of a sudden 

dundasl

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All's well that ends well

borgl

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As good luck would have it

Oli Wilson

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To be, or not to be, that is the question

Harry Curtis

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Dead as a doornail
Fight till the last gasp
The game is up
In a pickle

HenryM

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Puking

borgl

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Wear your heart on your sleeve

athertd

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A laughing stock

Ben Barnard

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wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve

dundasl

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Heart's content

pycrofe

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  • Laughing stock

atkinsa

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Fair play

Claudia Papke

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Fair play

sellorj

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"To be, or not to be: that is the question". - Hamlet (Act III, Scene I).

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". - Hamlet (Act I, Scene III).

"This above all: to thine own self be true". - Hamlet (Act I, Scene III).

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him". - (Act III, Scene II).

"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me". - (Act I, Scene II).

"The course of true love never did run smooth". - (Act I, Scene I).

Kelly Brick

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve (Othello)
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athertd

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In a pickle 

bournej

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Eyeball

HenryM

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Obscene

johnsok

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vanished into thin air
in a pickle
tongue-tied
fair play
seen better days
the game is up
teeth set on edge
dead as a doornail
laughing stock
For goodness sake

borgl

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In my minds eye

dundasl

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Set your teeth on edge

Oli Wilson

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I

rowlanb

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Annabelle Turner

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The game is up

athertd

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Vanish into thin air

Ben Barnard

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  • be all and end all
  • break the ice

borgl

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Knock knock, who's there?

bournej

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puking

Kelly Brick

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In a pickle (The Tempest)

Luke Hersov

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Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble

Annabelle Turner

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Wild goose chase

HenryM

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Hot blooded

athertd

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Send him packing

atkinsa

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Love is blind
The Queens english
Vanish into thin air

Claudia Papke

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In a Pickle

Night Owl 

Ben Barnard

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  • dog will have his day
  • eat out of house and home

bournej

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wormhole

rowlanb

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Can one desire too much of a good thing?

HenryM

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The game is afoot

Claudia Papke

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Shuffle off this mortal coil 

athertd

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foul play and fair play

borgl

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Fight fire with fire

Oli Wilson

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Skim Milk

Harry Hesketh-Prichard

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My salad days. Lol

HenryM

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Epilictic

Ben Barnard

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long-haired

pycrofe

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Good Riddance

Claudia Papke

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Woe is me 

borgl

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Break the ice

athertd

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There's method in my madness

dundasl

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Vanish into thin air

HenryM

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Epileptic

Ben Barnard

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  • more sinned against than sinning
  • naked truth
  • neither a borrower nor a lender be

Oli Wilson

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Alligator

impeyf

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All's well that ends well

sellorj

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he invented he curse word f**k

rowlanb

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As good luck would have it

HenryM

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Alligator

borgl

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Epileptic

atkinsa

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Hell is empty and all the devils are here

dundasl

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If music be the food of love, play on

Kelly Brick

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tranquil

rowlanb

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what 's done is done

dundasl

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Send him packing

dundasl

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Woe is me

dundasl

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Heart's content

atkinsa

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fight fire with fire
hearts content
I have not slept one wink

dundasl

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Green-eyed monster

dundasl

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Dazzles the will

dundasl

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Whose the name of action
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