shout out to Leon Trotsky for creating a way cooler version of "cope and seeth" almost a century before cope and seeth came into common use
shout out to Leon Trotsky for creating a way cooler version of "cope and seeth" almost a century before cope and seeth came into common use
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I think "raise a great hue and cry" predates our boy Leon and may be a Shakespear thing.
31 0 ReplyForms of the term "hue and cry" date from at least the 13th century and are first encountered in the Anglo-French legal documents of that period.
30 0 ReplyI hath drawn thee as a chaste hwelp
lo I hath drawn mē selfum as a strang hund
hue and cry about it lubberwort
33 0 Replygo thee to the grave still enraged
27 0 ReplyWilt thou bawl as a babe? Wilt thou wet thy breeches, perchance? Mayhap soil and spill seed?
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See, cope and seethe is as old as the English language. It's a very important thing to say to someone.
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