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Apr 14, 2021 10:54 PM
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TheFastpaws
And where did he get them?
76breakbeats
Fair Foul Play Play
lostinamapfactory
Let's not forget the phrase that was popular in English class: "Why to I have to learn Shakespeare?"
ImprovedLoungewear
Bated breath. Held back, as in 'abated'.
Oblamer
What about , "to die for", I have a memory of a HS teacher saying it refered to 'as good as an orgasm', which stuck with me.
AngryTeacher
Yeah "die" was also elizabethan slang for orgasm
PuzzledCompletely
"Literally" used figuratively.
P0sterNutbag
I say Heart of Gold because of Neil Young
metalmoco
Forgot “why fart and waste it when you can burp and taste it”
MurdockTheHawk
Don’t forget “what, you egg? *he stabs him* “
obie5778
And what did we get from Simpsons? Meh. D’Oh!
Goldenteckel
ThongsAreFootwear
*Bated breath
JOKERZwild86
Does nobody say “do you bite your thumb at thee” anymore?
TheDayTheBrainStoodStill
That's just popular expressions. There's also the 1700 English words he's the first source for, over 400 of which he invented himself.
sketchscotch
Elbow and eyeball!!!!!
ShipOfFate
*laughs in William Tyndale
GamingClaptrap
"Green eyed monster" (referring to Caliban in The Tempest) is a phrase from Marvell.
cjandstuff
Senior Year of high school, our AP English teacher had a calendar of Shakespearean insults. You rabbit eyed onion sucker.
DieGeistreiter
Left out the most important one...."First thing we do, Let's kill all the Lawyers".
dreamsnottheresultofwhatweeat
But I love my mommy!
gamblingpoet
This is one of the greatest literary arguments, followed only Homer Simpson laughing at Hank Scorpio throwing his shoe away. It can mean
gamblingpoet
either "kill all lawyers" to achieve the utopia, or it can mean that lawyers stand in the way of tyranny, thus they need to be killed.
releasethedogs
What’s that from?
geoffreyfourmyle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_kill_all_the_lawyers
wejustdontknow
"To thine own self be true." same character, Polonius, from Hamlet
KLUSTENATOR
The ear poison guy, right? I always thought that illustration looked weird as hell.
KLUSTENATOR
Nevermind, that was Claudius.
AngryTeacher
Except the lawyers line is from Henry VI, not Hamlet.
wejustdontknow
Shit. My bad.
TheDreadLordOfDownvotes
Song titles for a 90s grunge band
TheDreadLordOfDownvotes
Or early 00s alternative*
aregonex
What you egg!
phoenixsilver
A lot of these things likely weren't actually invented by Shakespeare... Just that most people weren't literate back then so he's...
Nathanyel
Literacy aside, I wonder how many were words were simply slang of the time, that Shakespeare incorporated into his plays.
phoenixsilver
The first written source we have of those terms.
PressTheAnyKey
Fair foul play play.
TheOvy
*bated breath
semiautonomicbiologicalunit
*bated breath
phssthpok
Thank you
daisy73
I knew it was bated but then I started to question myself.
PineappleIsDeliciousOnPizzaFightMe
Well, what's done is done
roguishdrummer
SpecialAgentCharlesCarmichael
*masterbated breath
Artistformerlyknownasprince
Me 24/7
AchDuLieber
Master debater breath.
Canucklesammich
Some people are closer to the post than the correction
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
This. English is not even my native language but I know this. From 'abated'.
lovedogsANDcats
The image of "baited" breath is just too hilarious
agonarch
It's actually one of the stupid, click too much voice lines on the nagas in warcraft 3, made me lol.
lovedogsANDcats
I don't understand a single thing you wrote.
agonarch
Alright, on warcraft 2 and 3 (strategy games) if you click a unit it gives a 'yes' speech line, keep clicking and it'll give secret ones.
agonarch
for the Naga units on warcraft 3, one of those lines is "I wait with baited breath".
setaymit
Anglerfish are no joke
unencumberedbythethoughtprocess
Don't forget "Elbow"
WineWomenAndSong
Its the bendy bit
OhLookNobody
Before Shakespeare they were just arm knees.
QueefWind
As in Coitus: His arse was going like a fiddlers 'Elbow'
ILiekToCookAndBake
Macaroni
combatwombat0
3 or 4 pronged eating utensil
IWouldDoThings
My favorites come from Aaron the Moor: "Villian, I have done thy mother" and many more gems
DukeDarkwood
The original mom joke.
geoffreyfourmyle
Lennix playing that role in the film version of Titus was astounding. As last words go, these are fucking brutal:
geoffreyfourmyle
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/496253-ay-that-i-had-not-done-a-thousand-more-even
IWouldDoThings
I have that part printed out from high school still because I thought it was so badass. The man knows exactly what he is, cares only for -
IWouldDoThings
- himself and his child, makes no apologies for any of it. Love him!
randorandoreallythatnamestakentoo
Isn't "Set your teeth on edge" from Edward Norton?
PooPculture
OOOOOOFFF
axiomatik
Oh god. Thanks for dredging that up.
SnowFallingOnCholera
Too soon. I can still hear it...
KittensForDays
...what?
randorandoreallythatnamestakentoo
Jebus... You're not fing around with your username
kibos
MakingplansforNigel
If you don’t know, you don’t wanna know. Believe me, I wish I could forget it.
glovelyday
Many of these were in common use during the Elizabethan era, Shakespeare is often just the first attested source.
Artistformerlyknownasprince
There's always the asswipe that has a comment like this..
glovelyday
And also like this. An even dumber comment, with a dollop of hostility.
Artistformerlyknownasprince
Nothing hostile here princess. I love you
Harryteeters
Clickbot9000
Your mom was in common use, too.
anotherdickat
W only remember what we remember.
kerms
Okay but how do we know that if he's the first attested source?
BethMme4
Appearance in those plays probably also contributed to them surviving rather than fading from use.
alchaeus12
Your mom is everyone's first attested source too
tehranosaurusrex
likeforsuredude
thatsonefuckingnicekitty
TheGreatGergsy
Found him, boys. The nerd.
Varenvel
"thank you that you think i'm smarter then you"
thefreak013
CairoLen
He prefers the term "smarter than you."
Goldenteckel
Trustmeimadogtor
You write it down first, you get the credit lol
glovelyday
Did he? Note my my use of the term "attested".
brandsilven
Yup. Still preserved and used today thanks to Shakespeare. Had he not used these, it's possible that many may not still be in use today.
karmenouji
That's true, although I would add, if they didnt make it into a well known Shakespeare play, would the phrase have become popular enough
Cruelroullette
Right? They'd just yeet that right out of there.
karmenouji
For us to still be saying it today? He might not have created the phrase but, he might have popularized it enough to last this long
wipethatfaceoffyourheadbitch
Lit
mjjt
Sure, but we don't have those sources. If Shakespeare hadn't used them, we probably would no longer have them
OverthoughtUnderedited
The claim was: things we say that we owe to Shakespeare. Since most of us ain't reading ol Ben Jonson in HS, point stands.
im25ok
Idk. I very rarely read the first attested source of the word “door”, and I still use the word almost every day.
DMSledge
The Alchemist
HandoB4Javert
As you like it.
pigggers
True, which, he could very well be the reason we (still) say these today. They may have been lost if not written in famous works.
DadsHumor
So... we owe Shakespeare for earning our admiration and can appreciate as the attested source... right? Ok.
Artistformerlyknownasprince
Exactly. What an annoying cocksucker
Jopler420
they arrested him? for what i wonder? i always knew he was slimey
Therealcrotalus
TIL Shakespeare was black
UnknownVD
Tame your shrew, buddy boy. The Bard was many things: an historian, a cunning linguist, and on occasion even Francis Bacon.
ThisCallsForADrinkexclamationpoint
And a master debater
UnknownVD
I read somewhere that he could go anon and anon well into the midsummer's night.
EdoubleLIOdoubleT
Cunnilingus?
Cruelroullette
ThisCallsForADrinkexclamationpoint
Yes, please