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Sea change

//ˈsiːˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A profound transformation; a metamorphosis. idiomatic

    "Public opinion has undergone a sea change since the 2002 elections."

  2. 2
    a profound transformation wordnet

Etymology

From Act I, scene ii, of The Tempest (1610–1611) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616), spelling modernized: “Full fathom five thy father lies, / 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 / Into something rich and strange”. The passage refers to how a drowned man’s body lying on the sea bed had been transformed by the sea.

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