 |
Shylock
The grasping Jew, who “would kill the thing he hates.” (Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice.)
Shylock
(A). A grasping moneylender. (See above.)
“Respectable people withdrew from the trade, and the money-lending
business was entirely in the hands of the Shylocks. ... Those who had
to borrow coin were obliged to submit to the expensive subterfuges of
the Shylocks, from whose net once caught, there was little chance of
escape,” —A. Egmont-Hake: Free Trade in Capital, chap. vii.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Shylock from Infoplease:
- Shylock: meaning and definitions - Shylock: Definition and Pronunciation
- Shylock - Shylock The grasping Jew, who “would kill the thing he hates.” (Shakespeare: Merchant ...
- William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Dramatis Personae -
- William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene V - Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge, The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:— What, Jessica!—thou shalt not gormandise, As thou hast
- William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene III - Three thousand ducats; well.
See a map of "" in the Visual Thesaurus
|
|
