SLINGS AND ARROWS


Meaning of SLINGS AND ARROWS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun plural ]

Etymology: from the phrase “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Date: 1963

: pointed often acerbic critical attacks

has suffered the slings and arrows of detractors — Roland Gelatt

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