EVERYDAY PHRASES THAT COME FROM SHAKESPEARE

Qui di seguito potete leggere alcune frasi tratte dalle opere di William Shakespeare che sono entrate nel linguaggio comune. Per ognuna ti spieghiamo il significato.
• Love is blind meaning: if you’re in love, you are unable to see your lover’s faults
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit…
(The Merchant of Venice)
• A heart of gold meaning: of good and kind nature
The king’s a bawcock, and a heart of gold…
(Henry V)
• Vanish into air meaning: disappear completely
Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I’ll away. Go; vanish into air; away!
(Othello)
• There’s a method to his madness meaning: there is a reason behind his odd behaviour
Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t
(Hamlet)
• Break the ice meaning: get to know a stranger
And if you break the ice and do this feat…
(The Taming of the Shrew)
• All that glitters is not gold meaning: not everything that is shiny and looks precious turns out to be that good
All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold…