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A Sorry Sight
A Sorry Sight
A Sorry Sight : Phrases
Meaning:
A regrettable and unwelcome aspect or feature. Now also used to mean something or someone of untidy appearance.
Example:
What a sorry sight! You should have driven safe. This accident is totally avoidable.
Origin:
From Shakespeare's Macbeth, 1605:
MACBETH:
Hark! Who lies i' the second chamber?
LADY MACBETH:
Donalbain.
MACBETH:
This is a sorry sight.
[Looking on his hands]
LADY MACBETH:
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.