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"______, thy name is ______" is a snowclone used to indicate the completeness with which something or somebody (indicated by the second part) embodies a particular quality (indicated by the first part), usually a negative one. HistoryIn most instances, the usage is an allusion to the Shakespearean play Hamlet (I, ii, 146). In this work, the title character is chastised by his uncle (and new stepfather), Claudius, for grieving his father so much, calling it unmanly. In his resultant soliloquy, Hamlet denounces his mother's swift remarriage with the statement, "Frailty, thy name is woman."[1] He thus describes all of womankind as frail and weak in character.[2] The phrase is recognized as one of the "memorable expressions" from the play to become "proverbial".[3] In the book Idiom Structure in English by Adam Makkai, the author asserts that the phrase is included among English idioms that are expressed in a "standard format" and whose usage "signals to the hearer that he is using an authority in underscoring his own opinion."[4] Researchers Andrew Littlejohn and Sandhya Rao Mehta acknowledged that the famous quote rendered not only a discursive use, but a constructional one as well,[5] noting that "the structure itself can be used a salient, but neutral equation formula...'noun thy name is noun.'"[5] ExamplesLawSupreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, dissenting from the Court's decision in King v. Burwell, upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, repeatedly used the construction to criticize the Court's majority opinion, stating: "Understatement, thy name is an opinion on the Affordable Care Act!"; "Impossible possibility, thy name is an opinion on the Affordable Care Act!"; and "Contrivance, thy name is an opinion on the Affordable Care Act!" (June 25, 2015)[6] QuotedAmos Bronson Alcott famously said of William Ellery Channing in 1871, "Whim, thy name is Channing." He was referring to Channing's Transcendentalist poetry style.{{sfn|Buell|1973|p=240}} Literature
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ReferencesFootnotes1. ^(2006). "Frailty, thy name is woman!" ENotes.com (accessed October 13, 2006) 2. ^Martin, Gary (2006). "Frailty, thy name is woman" Phrases.org.uk (accessed October 13, 2006) 3. ^Lederer 2010, p. 89 4. ^Makkai 1972, p. 177 5. ^1 Littlejohn et. al. 2012, pp. 167-168 6. ^{{cite court |litigants = King v. Burwell |vol = 576 |reporter = U.S. |opinion = |pinpoint = |court = U.S. |date = June 25, 2015 |url = https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-114_qol1.pdf |accessdate = March 23, 2017 |ref = {{harvid|SCOTUS|2015}}}} 7. ^{{cite AV media |people=Richard Sakai (director) |date=2014 |chapter=Zena's Honeymoon |title=Taxi: Die Finale Season |trans-title=The Final Season |medium=DVD |language=German, English |location=Germany |publisher=Paramount Home Media Distribution / Paramount Home Entertainment (Germany)}} 8. ^{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Seth |title=Krusty's Political Philosophy |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-greenland/krustys-political-philoso_b_7203.html |website=The Huffington Post |date=12 September 2005}} 9. ^{{cite book |title=Language Studies Stretching the Boundaries |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Pub. |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |isbn=1443843865}} 10. ^{{cite web |title=Supergirl Recap: Dawn of Just Us Nice People |url=http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/supergirl-recap-season-1-episode-18.html |website=Vulture |language=en}} Bibliography
|chapter = Ellery Channing: The Major Phase of a Minor Poet |title = Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance |last = Buell |first = Lawrence |authorlink = Lawrence Buell |series = |publisher = Cornell University Press |location = Ithaca; London |year = 1973 |pages = 239–262 |isbn = 978-1-5017-0766-7 |jstor = 10.7591/j.ctt1g69x7r |ref = harv }}
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