21 Phrases You Use Without Realizing You’re Quoting Shakespeare

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21 Phrases You Use Without Realizing You’re Quoting Shakespeare

Throughout nearly 40 plays, Shakespeare wrote quite a few lines that have since become more easily remembered than forgotten.

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William Shakespeare devised new words and countless plot tropes that still appear in everyday life. Famous quotes from his plays are easily recognizable; phrases like "To be or not to be," "wherefore art thou, Romeo," and "et tu, Brute?" instantly evoke images of wooden stages and Elizabethan costumes. But an incredible number of lines from his plays have become so ingrained into modern vernacular that we no longer recognize them as lines from plays at all. Here are 21 phrases you use but may not have known came from the Bard of Avon.

1. "Wild Goose Chase" // Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene IV - "Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five. Was I with you there for the goose?" — Mercutio

This term didn't originally refer to actual geese, but rather a type of horse race.

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2. "Green-Eyed Monster" // Othello, Act III, Scene III - "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on." — Iago

Before Shakespeare, the color green was most commonly associated with illness. Shakespeare turned the notion of being sick with jealousy into a metaphor that we still use today.

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[Abby08]

That's very interesting, I've used several of those.

[RMNIXON]

I was only aware of a few like "Green Eyed Monster" and thought "Game is afoot" originated with Sherlock Holmes!


At the beginning of “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange,” he awakens Watson by saying, “Come, Watson, come. The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!”

AND THEN HOLMES SAID…. OR DID HE? | Simanaitis Says


"Elementary, my dear Watson" was never written!

[Admiral Ackbar]

Shakespeare was a white man. This post is racist