Файл: Шекспиризмы вчера и сегодня (The Notion and Classification of English Idioms).pdf

Dictionaries:

1. Cowie, A.P., Mackin, X.R. Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, Oxford University Press, 1996.

2. Longman Dictionary of English Idioms.L., 1981.

3. Lubensky S. Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms.N.Y.1995.

4. Martin A. Monser A Dictionary of Contemporary Idioms Pan Books, London and Sydney in association with Macmillan Press

5. Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English, vol. 2. – Oxford University Press, 1988.

6. Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, third edition, revised. - Oxford University Press, 2008.

7. Richard, A. Spears American Idioms Dictionary, Lincolnwood, Illinois, USA, 1991.

Websites:

1. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/124000.html
2. http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
3. http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
4. http://www.mycobuild.com/about-collins-corpus.aspx
5. http://americannationalcorpus.org/
6. http://ice-corpora.net/ice/

Appendix

The list of shakespearisms:

“Macbeth”
To make assurance double sure

Till (to) the crack of doom

To applaud to the echo

To bear a charmed life
The be-all and end-all
The milk of human kindness
To screw one’s courage to the sticking place
To win golden opinions
At one fell swoop
The sere and yellow leaf
Pride of place
Full of sound and fury

“Hamlet”
To be or not to be?
To cudgel one’s brains
The observed of all observers
To be hoist with one’s own petard
To do yeoman service
Our withers are unwrung
To shuffle off (this mortal coil)
To give pause to (smb.)
To out-Herod Herod
To know a hawk from a handsaw
Caviar to the general
Germane to the matter
A towering passion
The primrose path of dalliance
There’s the rub
From whose bourne no traveler returns

In the mind’s eye
To the manner born
Shreds and patches
Sweets to the sweet
To the top of one’s bent

To speak daggers 

From whose bourn no traveller returns

More honoured in the breach than( in) the observance

(The time is) out of joint

To lay not that flattering unction to your soul

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Forty thousand brothers

“Othello”
The green-eyed monster
To chronicle small beer
The seamy side
To wear one’s heart upon one’s sleeve
Trifles light as air
Curled darlings
Moving accident(s)
Ocular proof
A foregone conclusion
The head and front of
The pity of it!
“King Henry IV”
To eat one out of house and home
The wish is father to the thought
The better part of valour is discretion

“King Henry V”
To give the devil his due

“King John”
To gild refined gold
To paint the lily

“Twelfth Night”
Midsummer madness
The whirligig of time
Cakes and ale

“Merchant of Venice”
To have (smb.) on the hip
To one’s heart’s content
A Daniel comes to judgment
A pound of flesh
With bated breath

The devil can cite scripture

“As You like It”
How the world wags?
In good set terms
lay it on with a trowel
Sermons in stones

“Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Fancy free
The beginning of the end

“King Lear”
Every inch a king
More sinned against than sinning

“Much Ado About Nothing”
Comparisons are odorous
Good men and true

Care killed a (the) cat

“Troilus and Criseyde”
Hit or miss

“Romeo and Juliet”
A fool’s paradise

To bite (my, your) thumb at (you, me)

“Comedy of Errors”
Neither rhyme nor reason

“Antonius and Cleopatra”
Salad days

“Julius Caesar”
An itching palm

“Tempest”
A sea-change

“Coriolanus”
Atriton among the minnows