Jekyll and Hyde
See also: Jekyll-and-Hyde
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʒɛkəl ænd haɪd/
- IPA(key): /dʒiːkəl ænd haɪd/ (original pronunciation, now rare)
Noun
Jekyll and Hyde (plural Jekylls and Hydes or Jekyll and Hydes)
- Someone or something that has two sides: one good (the "Dr. Jekyll") and one bad (the "Mr. Hyde").
- 1944, United Air Lines, Inc, Before the Civil Aeronautics Board: Briefs, Exhibits, etc. (page 28)
- The public will be better off if United and Western are true competitors, instead of a pair of Jekylls and Hydes.
- 1974, “H2Ogate Blues”, in Winter in America, performed by Gil Scott-Heron:
- America! / The international Jekyll and Hyde / The land of a thousand disguises / Sneaks up on you but rarely surprises
- 1977, “Dark Shroud of the Past!”, in Uncanny X-Men, number 106, page 31:
- Charles Xavier: That was my… Evil self, X-Men. The Charles Xavier who would use his powers for personal gain and conquest--The Mr. Hyde to my Dr. Jekyll.
- 1989, “Super DuckTales Part 3: Full Metal Duck”, in DuckTales, season 3, episode 8:
- GizmoDuck: Excuse me! Just a little case of Jekyll and Hyde, that's all!
- 2011, Mark Ryan, Geometry Essentials For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 5:
- Studying geometry is sort of a Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde thing. You have the ordinary geometry of shapes (the Dr. Jekyll part) and the strange world of geometry proofs (the Mr. Hyde part).
- 1944, United Air Lines, Inc, Before the Civil Aeronautics Board: Briefs, Exhibits, etc. (page 28)
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