No only can I not get what the following sentence means, I fail to understand the concept of the bold part, as well.
Frailty, thy name is woman
"______, thy name is ______"
idioms
No only can I not get what the following sentence means, I fail to understand the concept of the bold part, as well.
Frailty, thy name is woman
"______, thy name is ______"
Best Answer
The meaning of the sentence is "women embody frailty to the full extent" or
or, even:
That is, women are considered to be more delicate, more frail than men. The author of the sentence tries to express it in "high language", to add emphasis.
Other examples of the same structure:
It turns out there's a Wikipedia page about this structure: "Thy name is".