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'C' change
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C'' change where does it come from and what does it mean?
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The original form of the phrase was Shakespeare's: 'Of his bones are coral made/Those are pearls that were his eyes/Nothing of him that doth fade/But doth suffer a sea change.' The suggestion was clearly that the change was fundamental.
More recently, it was used as a sort of motto by the Conservative Party, in the sense that a 'C' - for 'Conservative' - change was what Britain required. (They're going through a bit of a C-change - not to mention a sea-change themselves at the moment!
to add to the increasingly ravishing qm's answer, this is partly due to an archaic use of the term "sea". it didnt just mean the big wet thing but also the condition of it. So a rough sea, a calm sea etc. were states of weather as much as descriptors. that is a sea in this case is a noun. so moving from a rough sea to a calm sea is a sea change.
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