Shakespeare's phrases

wear your heart on your sleeve

• be extremely kind and loving

• openly show your feelings

• go through heartbreak

a wild goose chase

• a worthwhile goose hunt

• a successful search for something

• an useless search for something

be in a bit of a pickle

• be in trouble

• be in great pain

• feel deep sorrow

mum's the word

• make a promise

• say as much as is required

• stay angry

• keep quiet and say nothing

a sorry sight

• a scene of poverty

• a social problem that is talked about a lot

• something that is in a bad state

eat somebody out of the house

• to eat a lot of the food that someone has in their house

• make someone leave

• cause someone so much trouble that they leave a place willingly

vanish into thin air

• permanently mix something

• dilute something completely

• disappear

not sleep a wink

• sleep a little

• not sleep at all

• stay up 24/7

have somebody in stitches

• having stitches after getting a wound

• making somebody laugh a lot

send somebody packing

• asking someone to leave immediately

• asking someone to pack their things and leave

• send somebody on a trip