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With tooth and nail.
With tooth and nail.
Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
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Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
[Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil
facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]
As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
Praise her but for this her without-door form--
Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight
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Praise her but for this her without-door form--
Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight
The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands
That calumny doth use--O, I am out,
That mercy does, for calumny will sear
Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,
When you have said she's goodly, come between
Ere you can say she's honest.
To give importance to trifling matters.
To give importance to trifling matters.
Through thick and thin.
Through thick and thin.
By all that's good and glorious.
By all that's good and glorious.
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
