Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears definition


From the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, the first line of a speech in which Mark Antony addresses the crowd at Caesar's funeral.

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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