Results: Things We Say Everyday That We Owe To Shakespeare
Published on 05/24/2015
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Despite sometimes reading or seeing a Shakespeare play and being completely "clueless", many common everyday phrases and words we use, we owe directly to the Bard. How many of these words do you use or know, that were first coined by Shakespeare?
"Assassination" - Macbeth
27%
421 votes
"Rant" - Hamlet
27%
428 votes
"Puking" - As You Like It
25%
388 votes
"Fashionable" - Troilus and Cressida
27%
419 votes
"Obscene" - Love's Labour's Lost
29%
449 votes
"Bedazzled" - The Taming of the Shrew
23%
352 votes
"Addiction" - Othello
29%
457 votes
"Swagger" - Henry V
23%
358 votes
"Zany" - Love's Labour's Lost
15%
233 votes
None of them
39%
602 votes
All of them
21%
330 votes
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How many of these phrases do you use--all of them right from the pen of William Shakespeare? "For goodness sake" - Henry VIII
45%
695 votes
"Neither here not there" - Othello
29%
454 votes
"Eaten out of house and home" - Henry IV, Part II
31%
482 votes
"All's well that ends well" - All's Well That Ends Well
37%
582 votes
"A heart of gold" - Henry V
34%
533 votes
"A wild goose chase" - Romeo and Juliet
35%
554 votes
"Knock knock! Who's there?" - Macbeth
39%
605 votes
"With bated breath" - The Merchant of Venice
17%
263 votes
I use all of them
22%
340 votes
I use none of them
22%
341 votes
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And how many of these phrases do you use, again thanks to Shakespeare? "Give the devil his due" - Henry IV, Part I
17%
264 votes
"There's method in my madness" - Hamlet
33%
510 votes
"Wear your heart on your sleeve" - Othello
29%
450 votes
"Come what, come may" - Macbeth
14%
223 votes
"Own flesh and blood" - Hamlet
26%
400 votes
"In stitches" - Twelfth Night
22%
348 votes
"Vanish into thin air" - Othello
32%
498 votes
"Foregone conclusion" - Othello
17%
270 votes
"Not slept one wink" - Cymbeline
25%
387 votes
I use all of them
17%
259 votes
I use none of them
27%
423 votes
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