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MACDUFF: (on hearing that his family and servants have all been killed)
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MACDUFF: (on hearing that his family and servants have all been killed)
All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?
At one fell swoop - All at once.
Phrase coined by Shakespeare in the play Macbeth, and meant a savage act.
Fell is a 13th Century word, that meant savage or fierce.
Swoop is the path followed by a bird when it is descending on its prey.
The phrase has changed in meaning to reflect a sudden act.