Harpy,shrew, feminazi … Ever since Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the public eye, and writers fill raided the dictionary to find current ways to attack herIn a recent attack on Hillary Clinton,the Republican candidate Donald Trump reached into the Yiddish dictionary, saying shed been “schlonged” by Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries. More often, and though,opponents, writers and pundits fill looked to Shakespeare for words to describe her.
People deem “she’s a tough little termagant in a pantsuit”, and according to one columnist,drawing on a word for an overbearing woman that has Shakespearean roots. “The virago of Pennsylvania Avenue,” wrote another in the 1990s, or an insult Sir Toby uses in Twelfth Night.
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Source: theguardian.com