Lit Genius Editors - Words and Phrases Coined By Shakespeare lyrics

Some words and phrases first coined by the Bard, or at least first attested in his work. WORDS - Amazement - Apostrophe - Assa**ination - Bloody - Courtship - Critic - Dislocate - Generous - Gloomy - Gnarled - Laughable - Lonely - Multitudinous - Obscene - Puking - Pious - Radiance - Submerge - Suspicious - Swagger - Trippingly - Well-bred - Zany PHRASES - Eaten out of house and home - Foregone conclusion - Full circle - Method in his madness - Neither rhyme nor reason - One fell swoop - Pomp and circumstance - Seen better days - It smells to heaven - A sorry sight - A spotless reputation - Strange bedfellows - The green-eyed monster - The makings of - The world's (my) oyster