Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English
Phrases of Greek Origin
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Greek
bathos
anticlimax
Greek
Eureka!
I’ve found it!
Greek
hoi polloi
the masses
Greek
hubris
pride, arrogance
Greek
nemesis
retribution