| 词汇 | mortal coil |
| 词源 | mortal coil. Shakespeare, of course, made this term famous in Hamlet, but many who use the phrase have some vague idea that the coil in it is a synonym for the globe or sphere. This is not so, the coil here deriving from Elizabethan slang for turmoil or bustle. |
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