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The meaning and origin of the expression: All corners of the world

All corners of the world

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What's the meaning of the phrase 'All corners of the world'?

All parts of the world.

What's the origin of the phrase 'All corners of the world'?

The meaning and origin of the expression 'All corners of the world'From Shakespeare's Cymbeline, 1611.

PISANIO:
What shall I need to draw my sword? the paper
Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
All corners of the world: kings, queens and states,
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave
This viperous slander enters. What cheer, madam?

Shakespeare also used the phrase 'the four corners of the earth' in The Merchant of Venice, 1596, and in King John, 1595, 'the three corners of the world'.

BASTARD:
O, let us pay the time but needful woe,
Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when it first did help to wound itself.
Now these her princes are come home again,
Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
If England to itself do rest but true.

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