Thursday, December 12, 2019

020 George Dandin

As of December 12, 2019, the Wikipedia entry for the Molière comedy George Dandin ou le Mari confondu does not yet mention that it is the origin of a well-known conventional phrase or tag, tu l'as voulu, George Dandin (lit. "you have wanted it, George Dandin," and used in the sense of "you have brought it on yourself"). The phrase appears in Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot, and other works.

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