Many good English writers have been accredited with the invention of phrases used in day to day life. I am presently reading The Odyssey by Homer (translator – Robert Fagles), written in the eight century B.C. I came across a couple of lines which may have inspired these famous English writers.
Modern Phrase
i Slow and steady wins the race
ii Between the devil and the deep blue sea
What The Odyssey has to offer
i …Slow outstrips the Swift!
ii Scylla to starboard, dreaded Charybdis off to port
Will keep updating this post as I come across newer ones… 🙂
2 replies on “Phrases from Odyssey”
maybe an ultimate test of a good author is by the number of experssions that people unknowingly use long after he/she is gone
That’s not just logic. That’s really sensible.