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What a piece of work is a man
The phrase "What a piece of work is a man!" comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act II, Scene 2, and is often used in reference to the whole speech containing the line.

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n : a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing: "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of john dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time" [syn: work]





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i. iş, görev

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n. item of art; person who is remarkable or outstanding, something remarkable; (Idiomatic) complicated and difficult person, person who is strange, unpleasant and troublesome person, something unpleasant, something strange

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n. ouvre d'art; personne qui est remarquable ou exceptionnelle, quelque chose de remarquable; (Idiomatique) personne compliquée et difficile; (plutôt négatif) quelque chose