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the winter of our discontent

  1. A phrase from the historical play King Richard the Third , by William Shakespeare ; it describes a civil war in England .


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Notes

“The winter of our discontent” has come to suggest disaffection in general. The phrase served as the title for a book by John Steinbeck .

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