1.Screw your courage to the sticking place      鼓足勇气

Meaning

Be firm and resolute.

Origin

This line is from Shakespeare's Macbeth, 1605:

Lady Macbeth:
'We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'

1. More fool you   你真是太傻了

Meaning

Said in reply to someone who has reported doing something that is considered to be obviously foolish.

Origin

From Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

BIANCA: The more fool you, for laying on my duty.

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Shakespeare contributed more phrases to the English language than any other individual. Here's a collection of well-known quotations coined by him.

   1. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger

Meaning

Literal meaning - a person or thing that is viewed more with sadness than with anger.

Origin

From Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1603. Horatio describes to Hamlet the appearance of his father's ghost:

Hamlet: What, look'd he frowningly?
Horatio: A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

 

2. A Daniel come to judgement

Meaning

Someone who makes a