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William Shakespeare
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| To slip | To fall/ slide because of a wet underground |
| Career | Something you 'built' at work/ by working |
| Comedy | Where the emphasis is on humour |
| History | What happened in the past |
| Tragedy | Where the emphasis is on something tragic/ causing great suffering |
| To inherit | To receive something from someone who died |
| All the world's a stage | And all the men and women are merely players |
| Love is blind | And lovers cannot see |
| Neither a borrower | Nor a lender be |
| To be, or not to be | That is the question |
| Things without remedy should be without regard | What's done is done |
| The course of true love | Never did run smooth |
| The game is up | A series of events had ended badly |
| Mum's the world | Don't talk about it |
| In a pickle | That you are in trouble/ in a difficult situation |
| To melt into thin air | To dissapear suddenly and completely |
| To come full cirkle | To end up in the place you've started |
| To be the laughing stock | To be someone everybody is laughing at |
| To be a night owl | Someone who likes to be awake at night |
| To break the ice | It's a way to start a conversation |
| To send someone packing | To send someone away |
| At snail's pace | That you are going very slow |
| To lay low | To make yourself "small" or keep quiet to not be noticed |
| Being unfaithful | Having a romantic relationship with someone else |
| To ruin something | To damage or destroy something |
| To overhear | To hear something by accident |
| To mourn | To feel and show sadness after a person's death |
| Wealthy | Rich |
| A maid | A woman servant |
| To flirt with someone | To do or say things that suggest you are attracted to someone |
| To faint | To lose consciousness temporarily |