الواصلة
King charles' headالتركية النطق
kîng çärlz hedالنطق
/ˈkəɴɢ ˈʧärlz ˈhed/ /ˈkɪŋ ˈʧɑːrlz ˈhɛd/
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() King Charles I was beheaded in 1649, but the allusion is literary, rather than historical: Mr. Dick, in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, lives with David's aunt, Betsy Trotwood. Mr. Dick had been trying to write a petition to the Lord Chancellor on the subject of some imagined dispute, but the subject of King Charles's head keeps intruding into the text. Betsy Trotwood discusses Mr. Dick's affliction with the young David: : "Did he say anything to you about King Charles the First, child?"
: "Yes, aunt."
: "Ah!" said my aunt, rubbing her nose as if she were a little vexed. "That's his allegorical way of expressing it. He connects his illness with great disturbance and agitation, naturally, and that's the figure, or the simile, or whatever it's called, which he chooses to use." The allusion was picked up by other writers and had become common by the 1890s.