2006-12-06 01:15:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
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"mortal coil
Mortal coil is a poetic term that means the troubles of daily life and the strife and suffering of the world. It is used in the sense of a burden to be carried or abandoned, most famously in the phrase "shuffle[d] off this mortal coil" from Shakespeare's Hamlet. (For more context of the phrase, see To be, or not to be.)
Derivation
Derived from 16th Century English, "coil" refers to tumults or troubles. Used idiomatically, the word means "the troubles of life and the world."
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2006-12-06 01:20:35 · answer #1 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
from the shakespearean phrase right? it means to leave behind ur troubles from this world. so coil being troubles the things that keep u busy.
2006-12-06 09:19:34 · answer #2 · answered by bencilius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a quote from "Hamlet", "coil" being an archaic English word for “noisy disturbance, fuss, bustle.”
2006-12-06 09:19:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
stress, troubles, fear, noisy disturbance; commotion; tumult,a fuss,complexity, complication, convolution, entanglement, intricacy, jungle, knot, mesh, morass, perplexity, problem, puzzle, riddle, skein, snarl, tangle, jam,labyrinth, mass, mat, maze, mess, mess-up, mix-up, morass, muddle, rummage, skein, snag, snarl, twist, web,
2006-12-06 09:27:12 · answer #4 · answered by samantha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋