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‘cheese-eating/tea-drinking surrender monkeys’

6th May 2019.Reading time 23 minutes.

‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys’: the French people (USA, 1995) from The Simpsons—‘tea-drinking surrender monkeys’: the British people (Ireland, 2004)

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‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark’: origin

8th Dec 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

from the observation made by the soldier Marcellus in ‘Hamlet’, by Shakespeare, when the eponymous character is following the ghost of his father

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