Cliches from the bard

# 13. “Be-all and end-all”.

While musing on the assassination of his rival Duncan, Macbeth describes its potential significance as “the be-all and end-all”

# 14. “Lend an ear”.

“Friends,Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”
opens one of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches.
(By Mark Antony in Julius Caesar)

# 15. “Greek to me”.

In Julius Caesar, Casca describes having heard a speech by orator Cicero.

But as Cicero has spoken in Greek and not in Latin, Casca has not understood it and comments “It was Greek to me”

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