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glimpses of the moon

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 222 words | Copyright

glimpses of the moon the earth by night, sublunary scenes (originally with reference to the scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet in which Hamlet refers to his father's ghost's revisiting ‘the glimpses of the moon’.

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