Thank you, Shakespeare, for the idioms

May 8, 2020 Amy Gillett

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Shakespeare has enriched English with many idioms

Shakespeare, aka the Great Bard, died over 400 years ago ... but we are still using many of the colorful phrases he made up. We say he 'coined' these phrases, meaning he made them up. Of course, we don't always know when we're using an idiom or phrase that first emerged from Shakespeare's quill!

Shakespeare Idioms: Act I

Act 1: Here's our first set of Shakespeare inspired idioms. Which one is your favorite? I think I like "It's all Greek to me" because it's such a colorful way to express that you have no idea what's going on. The expression is from "Julius Caesar." In the play, Casca says of a speech given by Seneca, given in Greek so that many people would not understand it, “For mine own part, it was Greek to me.” Maybe this lack of understand really frustrated Casca because he went on to help assassinate Julius Caesar!

Shakespeare Idioms: Act II

We can't just have one act with this blog post now, can we? Not with the hundreds of words and idioms that Shakespeare has given the English language. That would set the Great Bard's teeth on edge! Oh, there we go with another Shakespearean idiom. "Set one's teeth on edge" means to cause someone to feel irritation. And the last thing we would want to do on a post dedicated to Shakespeare would be to annoy the man himself! So here we are without further ado ... Act II

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