MSN: The lady doth protest too much: MAGA wife spirals over gay rumors about her troll husband
Lady Benny Johnson doth protest too much. This past weekend, the MAGA bootlicker and his wife recognized Valentine’s Day with what they called a “rare date night.” Naturally, Johnson posted their ...
The lady doth protest too much: MAGA wife spirals over gay rumors about her troll husband
The Guardian: Melania says her piece about Epstein – doth the lady protest too much?
Melania says her piece about Epstein – doth the lady protest too much?
Lady Macbeth wants to substitute her milk (which would nourish a kid) for gall, which today would mean boldness and impertinence, but also refers to bile (Merriam-Webster). So here, too, the milk is too kind, too nourishing, and so it must be switched for something more murderous so that she can physically and mentally go through with murder.
I tried searching Google Ngram Viewer for "Look lady" and "Listen lady", both capitalized so as to occur at the start of a sentence, with the hope that these ngrams would reflect the usage of "lady" in a derogatory/dismissive sense. It seems to have come into usage around 1950, and really took off in the late 1990s.
Ladies is the plural form of lady, so the apostrophe goes to the right - ladies'. If you are wondering why we don't write ladies's, it is because ladies is one of the exceptions, along with girls', parents', players', weeks' and even Klingons' It can get a bit niggly with names too. Aristophanes' plays, but Jesus's miracles and (usually) James ...