英语词汇enough to make the angels weep的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	enough to make the angels weep
词源	enough to make the angels weep. Something so foolish that it causes one to lose all hope. Shakespeare appears to have in- vented the expression in Measure for Measure (1604): “. . . man,/ Drest in a little brief authority,/ . . . Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven/ As make the angels weep.”
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