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Good Men and True : Phrases



Meaning:

Dependable men, of rank and honour. The phrase was adapted later to 'twelve good men and true', indicating the twelve (originally all men, now both sexes) of a criminal jury.



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Origin:

From Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, 1600:

DOGBERRY: Are you good men and true?

VERGES: Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation, body and soul.






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