Leon_Frotsky [she/her]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agoshout out to Leon Trotsky for creating a way cooler version of "cope and seeth" almost a century before cope and seeth came into common usehexbear.netimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down10
arrow-up167arrow-down1imageshout out to Leon Trotsky for creating a way cooler version of "cope and seeth" almost a century before cope and seeth came into common usehexbear.netLeon_Frotsky [she/her]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·7 months agoI think “raise a great hue and cry” predates our boy Leon and may be a Shakespear thing.
minus-squareemizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·7 months ago Forms of the term “hue and cry” date from at least the 13th century and are first encountered in the Anglo-French legal documents of that period.
minus-squarehappybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·7 months ago I hath drawn thee as a chaste hwelp lo I hath drawn mē selfum as a strang hund hue and cry about it lubberwort
minus-squareNephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·edit-27 months agogo thee to the grave still enraged
minus-squareNephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-27 months agoWilt thou bawl as a babe? Wilt thou wet thy breeches, perchance? Mayhap soil and spill seed?
minus-squareMaoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·7 months agoSee, cope and seethe is as old as the English language. It’s a very important thing to say to someone.
I think “raise a great hue and cry” predates our boy Leon and may be a Shakespear thing.
hue and cry about it lubberwort
go thee to the grave still enraged
Wilt thou bawl as a babe? Wilt thou wet thy breeches, perchance? Mayhap soil and spill seed?
See, cope and seethe is as old as the English language. It’s a very important thing to say to someone.