{"id":116,"date":"2015-07-29T17:15:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-232648-741634.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2015-07-29T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:15:16","slug":"shakespeares-sayings-we-use-nowadays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/shakespeares-sayings-we-use-nowadays\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare&#039;s Sayings We Use Nowadays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\nWilliam Shakespeare is regarded as the world&#8217;s supreme dramatist. His impact on the English language was so great that even after four centuries,&nbsp;<strong>we still use some of his phrases<\/strong>. While he may not have been the first to utter these words; he certainly popularised them well beyond his years.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<ul><li> We have seen better days. &#8211; As You Like ItWe have seen better days. <\/li><li>Knock knock! Who&#8217;s there? &#8211; Macbeth<\/li><li>Break the ice. &#8211; The Taming of the Shrew<\/li><li>Makes your hair stand on end. &#8211; Hamlet<\/li><li>The game is up. &#8211; Cymbeline<\/li><li>Love is blind &#8211; The Merchant of Venice<\/li><li>Wild goose chase. &#8211; Romeo &amp; Juliet<\/li><li>Come what may. &#8211; Macbeth<\/li><li>Wear your heart on your sleeve. &#8211; Othello<\/li><li>What&#8217;s done is done. &#8211; Macbeth<\/li><li>Fight fire with fire. &#8211; King John<\/li><li>Sweets to the sweet. &#8211; Hamlet<\/li><li>Out of the jaws of death. &#8211; The Taming of the Shrew<\/li><li>I&#8217;ll not budge an inch. &#8211; The Taming of the Shrew<\/li><li>To be, or not to be, that is the question. &#8211; Hamlet<\/li><li>The first thing we do, let&#8217;s kill all the lawyers. &#8211; King Henry the Sixth, Part II<\/li><li>Nothing will come of nothing. &#8211; King Lear<\/li><li>Fair play. &#8211; The Tempest<\/li><li>Forever and a day. &#8211; As You Like It<\/li><li>Men of few words &#8211; King Henry the Fifth<\/li><li>The course of true love &#8211; A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shakespeare is regarded as the world&#8217;s supreme dramatist. His impact on the English language was so great that even after four centuries,&nbsp;we still use &#8230; <a title=\"Shakespeare&#039;s Sayings We Use Nowadays\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/shakespeares-sayings-we-use-nowadays\/\" aria-label=\"More on Shakespeare&#039;s Sayings We Use Nowadays\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}