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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 (‘not in our stars’). ”
“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…”
“ From Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra : My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood, To say as I said then. A salad is green when its fresh. Green implies beginnings or amateurism. ”
“ A large change in perspective or circumstances. A gradual transformation. It comes from Shakespeare’s The Tempest where he discusses a death by drowning: Both doth suffer a sea change into something rich and strange ”