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Old October 31, 2009, 12:28 PM
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Lightbulb To suffer the slings and arrows of outregous fortune
I run into this expression while reading but I don´t understand the slings and arrows thing. Can anybody help?
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this is from probably the most famous speech in Shakespeare - Hamlet's soliloquy on whether life is worth living. The metaphor is that bad news in life is equivalent to arrows (flechas) and slings (hondas) being fired at you. Outrageous fortune = bad luck (mala suerte)

i.e. las adversidades de la vida
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