Invented by Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is most famous for his plays and poems, but he invented many words that we use every day. He came up with phrases that we use all the time without knowing where they came from. Here's a taste of some of the thousands of words and expressions that he created.

- "send him packing"

- "cold-blooded"

- "control"

- "distasteful"

- "the green-eyed monster"

- "fretful"

- "marketable"

- "quarrelsome"

- "radiance"

- "vanish into thin air"

- "all of a sudden"

- "revolting"

- "wild-goose chase"

- to "besmirch"

- "vulnerable"

- "zany