Things We Say Today And Owe To Shakespeare

A 20-year-old girl named Becky from London posted a picture of one the pages of her Moleskine notebook on Tumblr that, as they say, has gone viral and less than a week later is making waves across the Internet.

It's a simple thing: Becky wrote down, the "things we say today which we own to Shakespeare." It's phrases like "send him packing," "makes your hair stand on end," and "lie low."

Click over to Becky's Tumblr blog to see it full size. We agree with the English Muse blog, which tipped us off to the post, that it is "awesome."

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