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lean and hungry look

A phrase from the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Caesar remarks, concerning one of the men conspiring against him, “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.” Caesar means that Cassius looks dangerously dissatisfied, as if he were starved for power.

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Nearby words

  1. leal,
  2. lealty,
  3. leamington,
  4. leamington spa,
  5. lean,
  6. lean on,
  7. lean over backwards,
  8. lean-burn,
  9. lean-faced,
  10. lean-to
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