And thereby hangs a tale
and thereby hangs a tale
an expression, taken from as you like it, by william shakespeare, that means roughly “there’s a real story behind this.” it is commonly used by someone who is about to give the background of an interesting object, incident, or idea: “the colonel remarked, ‘see that umbrella over the mantelpiece? it saved my life during the war, and thereby hangs a tale.’”
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