英语词汇method in one-s madness的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	method in one-s madness
词源	method in one’s madness. Used to describe someone who acts crazy or erratic in order to further his aims, the old expres- sion seems to have originated with Shakespeare. At least its ear- liest ancestor is first recorded by the Bard in Hamlet: “Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.”
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