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Here is a selection of phrases coined by Shakespeare: Bated breath (The Merchant of Venice) To be-all and the end-all (Macbeth) To beggar description (Antony and Cleopatra) We have seen better days (As You Like It) A blinking idiot (The Merchant of Venice) Brave new world (The Tempest) Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet) Cruel to be kind (Hamlet) A dish fit for the Gods (Julius Caesar) He hath eaten me out of house and home (Henry IV Part 2) Foregone conclusion (Othello) Laid on with a trowel (As You Like It) Neither rhyme nor reason (The Comedy of Errors) Short shrift (Richard III) Sterner stuff (Julius Caesar) Too much of a good thing (As You Like It) A tower of strength (Richard III) Wild-goose chase (Romeo and Juliet)
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