Shakespeare's Influence

Bet you weren't aware we borrowed Shakespeare's words...

If you've ever been footloose and fancy free

If you've ever thanked someone from the bottom of your heart

If you've ever been left high and dry

If you ever took a test that you thought was a piece of cake

If you've ever refused to budge an inch

If you've ever been tongue-tied, a tower of strength, hood winked, or

If you've ever knitted your brow, made a virtue of necessity, insisted on fair play, slept not one wink, stood on ceremony, laughed yourself into stitches, or had short shrift, cold comfort, or too much of a good thing

If you've ever cleared out bag and baggage because you thought it was high time and that is the long and short of it

If you've ever believed the game is up, even if it involves your own flesh and blood

If you ever lie low, till the crack of dawn, through thick and thin, because you suspect foul play

If you've ever had your teeth set on edge, with one fell swoop, without rhyme or reason

And finally, if you now bid me good riddance and send me packing

If you wish I were as dead as a doornail

If you think I am an eyesore, a laughingstock, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded, or a blithering idiot, well then, by Jove, O lord, tut tut, for goodness' sake, and what the dickens!

It is all one to me, even if it's Greek to you, for you are quoting Shakespeare!

We got this from a former RT board member and lover of the bard...



Use the following site to discover where these words and phrases (and more!) came from:

cold-blooded ("King John", Act III, scene i)
hobnob ("Twelfth Night", Act III, scene iv)
puking ("As You Like It", Act II, scene vii)


Here's more than you'll ever need to know! Enjoy!