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This is a line from Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Cassius is trying to explain to Brutus that their current lives were not due to fate . In a 1980 episode of Buck Rogers, Dr. Goodfellow…
This is a phrase commonly known to mean “jealously,” but I’m having trouble figuring out why it means this. Shakespeare used the phrase at least twice. In Othello: O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. In The Merchant of Venice: How all…
This idiom is often used when referring to childhood or youth Halycon is an ancient name for the Kingfisher bird. In ancient times, it was believed the gods had given the bird the power to calm the seas during the time when she laid her eggs. Shakespeare used the phrase as the contemporary idiom in…