Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold Definition

Origin of Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold

• Earliest known metaphorical reference to revenge as food in English is "And then revenge is very good eaten cold, as the vulgar say", from a 1846 translation of Eugène Sue 's Mathilde: Mémoires d'une Jeune Femme. The passage suggests that it was an existing expression. Similar proverbs are known as early as the 17th century with "Reuenge is not good in cold bloud" in a translation of Don Quixote. The exact wording revenge is a dish best served cold may originate in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .

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