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course of true love never ran smoothly, the
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Lovers often face difficulties, as in Every time he tells me that he and his wife are fighting, I say the same thing鈥攜ou know about the course of true love . The full term is a quotation from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1:1): 鈥淭he course of true love never did run smooth.鈥 Over the years it has become so familiar that today it is often shortened, as in the example.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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