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Meaning: Hardshipsoradversecircumstances.[from late 16th – early 17th c.]Synonyms:misfortunes,setbacksc.1599–1602(date written),William Shakespeare,The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke:[…](Second Quarto), London:[…]I[ames]R[oberts]forN[icholas]L[ing][…], published1604,→OCLC, [Act III, scene i],signature G2, recto:To be, or not to be, that is the queſtion: / VVhether tis nobler in the minde to ſuffer / Theſlings and arrovvesof outragious fortune, / Or to take Armes againſt a ſea of troubles, / And by oppoſing, end them, to die to ſleepe / No more,[…]2010December 17,Allison Arieff, “Opinion: Can airports be fun?”, inThe New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon16 July 2023:Now that we're entering the thick of the holiday travel season and we've been groped, scanned, forced to eat a Cinnabon and otherwise made to suffer theslings and arrowsof air travel – here’s something rarely offered of late: a positive story about airports.2021October 17,J[ames] Harvie Wilkinson III, “Opinion: Supreme Court term limits wouldn’t solve anything”, inThe Washington Post[2], Washington, D.C.:The Washington Post Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon20 November 2021:It seems inevitable that an elite institution in a democratic republic will suffer theslings and arrowsof populist discontent. The wonder of it all may be that the institution of lifetime tenure has persisted for so long. Proponents of changing that rule may take satisfaction in humbling the justices ever so slightly, or believe that instituting term limits would forestall more radical change, such as expanding the size of the court.2023March 1, Julian Lucas, “Giancarlo Esposito Controls the Chaos”, inThe New Yorker[3], New York, N.Y.:Condé Nast Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon5 June 2023:In every role, he [Giancarlo Esposito] mesmerizes audiences with a coiled intensity that he credits to military school, theslings and arrowsof a volatile profession, and a lifelong commitment to mindfulness. "My karmic journey is to be told what to do and accept that and do it the best I can,” he said. “I realize one of my strengths is to control the chaos."; Harshcriticismorpersonal attacks.Synonyms:barbs,broadsides1812,[Maria] Edgeworth, “The Absentee. Chapter III.”, inTales of Fashionable Life(2nd series), volume V, London:[…][C. Wood]forJ[oseph]Johnson and Co.,[…],→OCLC,pages284–285:[…]Mrs. Dareville, without any motives of interest, or good nature of sufficient power to restrain her talent and habit of ridicule, free from hope or fear, gave full scope to all the malice of mockery, and all the insolence of fashion. Herslings and arrows, numerous as they were and outrageous, were directed against such petty objects, and the mischief was so quick, in its aim and its operation, that, felt but not seen, it is scarcely possible to register the hits, or to describe the nature of the wounds.1962June 15, “Politics: Passion, Pageantry & Platform”, inTime, volume LXXIX, number24, New York, N.Y.:Time Inc.,→ISSN,→OCLC,page13, column 1:In Massachusetts, theKennedy family, unafraid of theslings and arrowsfrom lesser breeds, proudly ran its youngest son through a convention gauntlet, and saw him emerge the victor.2013June 24,Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice,Supreme Court of the United States(dissenting judgment), “Vancev.Ball State University et al.”, inChristine Luchok Fallon, reporter,United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 2012[…](No. 11-556), volume570, Washington, D.C.:U.S. Government Publishing Office, published2018,→ISBN,→ISSN,→OCLC,page454:Exposed to a fellow employee's harassment, one can walk away or tell the offender to "buzz off." A supervisor'sslings and arrows, however, are not so easily avoided. An employee who confronts her harassing supervisor risks, for example, receiving an undesirable or unsafe work assignment or an unwanted transfer.2015October 14, Cara Buckley, “Steven Spielbergon the Cold War and other Hollywood front lines”, inThe New York Times[4], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon3 July 2023:[James Britt] Donovancould work in tremendous secrecy at a time when there was no social media. Today it'd be a lot harder to find a man that would stand up for his principles and suffer theslings and arrowsof the haters on social media.2025May 31,Maureen Dowd, “Tech Bro Had to Go”, inThe New York Times[5],→ISSN:As Trump said, Musk got a lot of “theslings and the arrows.” His approval rating cratered and violence has been directed toward Tesla, a brand once loved by liberals and in China, which is now tarnished.
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