479 Unique Words & Pharses coined by Shakespeare

Of all poets and playwrights in English, Shakespeare has been unique and unrivalled. Shakespeare’s name shines blazingly in the broad-breasted firmament of poetic drama. He was an embodiment of Genius for the language itself — for his unique discovery of words and phrases which garnishes and enriches the store house of English.

Shakespeare’s Unique Phrases

1. All our yesterdays (Macbeth)
2. All that glitters is not gold (The Merchant of Venice)(“glisters”)
3. All’s well that ends well (title)
4. As good luck would have it (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
5. As merry as the day is long (Much Ado About Nothing / King John)
6. Bated breath (The Merchant of Venice)
7. Bag and baggage (As You Like It / Winter’s Tale)
8. Bear a charmed life (Macbeth)
9. Be-all and the end-all (Macbeth)
10. Beggar all description (Antony and Cleopatra)
11. Better foot before (“best foot forward”) (King John)
12. The better part of valor is discretion (I Henry IV; possibly already a known saying)
13. In a better world than this (As You Like It)
14. Neither a borrower nor a lender be (Hamlet)
15. Brave new world (The Tempest)
16. Break the ice (The Taming of the Shrew)
17. Breathed his last (3 Henry VI)
18. Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet)
19. Refuse to budge an inch (Measure for Measure / Taming of the Shrew)
20. Catch a cold (Cymbeline; claimed but seems unlikely, seems to refer to bad weather) for more visit https://www.eng-literature.com/2015/12/words-pharses-got-from-shakespeare.html

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