SHAKESPEARE'S PHRASES I

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) coined phrases that are so imbedded in the language today that we don't realize how old they really are. Some examples and the works in which they first appeared:

1. Too much of a good thing 

    As You Like It 

2. Neither rhyme nor reason

    The Comedy of Errors

3. I have not slept one wink.

    Cymbeline

4. The clothes make the man

5. In my heart of hearts

6. Own flesh and blood

7. Cruel to be kind - - - - -  - Hamlet

8. He hath eaten me out of house and home.

    Henry IV Part II

9. A dish fit for the gods

10. It's Greek to me. - - - - - Julius Caesar