“Out of the blue with some cock and bull story”: Two stock phrases in Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (1967)

Today, while reading Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" (1967), I found myself especially enjoying the humor of words and phrases Stoppard uses that might have been coined since William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", the source of Stoppard's play, was written around 1600. Stoppard's Guildenstern, for example, uses two potentially anachronistic