Finally, we have come across a phrase written by Shakespeare for which he and he alone can take credit! In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth written in 1605, the phrase “sorry sight” makes its first appearance — not once, but twice — in Act 2, Scene 2.
MACBETH:
Hark! Who lies i’ the second chamber?
LADY MACBETH:
Donalbain.
MACBETH:
This is a sorry sight.
[Looking on his hands]
LADY MACBETH:
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
Sometimes finding the origins of a phrase, cliché, expression or word is as easy to find as a needle in a haystack. Sometimes it’s easy as pie!
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