hell hath no fury

[shahul]

"hell hath no fury". I saw this on new paper. what does it mean?

 

[5jj]

"hell hath no fury". I saw this on new paper. what does it mean?

It is commonly misquoted in this form from: Hell has no fury like a woman scorned.
The meaning is that nothing, not even Hell, can be as violent as the rage of a woman who has been scorned/spurned by he lover.

 

[konungursvia]

Thanks, I thought it was from Shakespeare! Or had remembered so incorrectly.

 

[5jj]

Thanks, I thought it was from Shakespeare! Or had remembered so incorrectly.

I did, too, until I checked .

 

[Tdol]

Me three.

 

[5jj]

And I thought it was hath.

 

[bhaisahab]

Me three.

Me four.;-)

 

[bhaisahab]

And I thought it was hath.

Me too.;-)

 

[BobK]

And I thought it was hath.

So did I, and it was a surprise to me how the original had 'a' fury, which was dropped to maintain the metre; it was quite unusual anyway - perhaps 'a fury' was more widely used then. Nowadays, fury is chiefly (only?) countable when it's either a mythological Greek one (Erinyes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) or in a construction such as 'she gave leash to a fury that nobody had expected' [which, now I think of it, is an ellipted form of 'a sort of fury'.

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