Meaning of “all that glitters is not gold”?

The idiom “all that glitters is not gold” means that attractive things aren’t always good, and valuable things aren’t always attractive. Shakespeare’s version appears in The Merchant of Venice, and the theme is echoed in Thomas Gray’s poem and Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. Even SpongeBob SquarePants learns that shiny new things aren’t always […]

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