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Was there a boy?

Maksim Gorky

Phraseologism: Was there a boy?

Meaning: An expression of extreme doubt about something.

Origin: Goes back to the phrase "was there a boy?" from Maxim Gorky's novel "The Life of Klim Samgin". One of the episodes of the novel tells about children skating. The children fall into the wormwood, they save the girl, and Klim throws the end of his belt to the boy, but then, afraid that he will be pulled into the water, he lets go of the belt. The boy is drowning. When they are looking for the drowned man, Klim hears someone's incredulous voice: "Was there a boy, maybe there wasn't a boy?"

Random phraseology:

Not a day without a line.

Meaning:

A poet, an artist, a scientist must work continuously, without missing a single day, so as not to lose his skill.

Origin:

From Latin: Nulla dies sine linea. Wrongly attributed to Julius Caesar. The words of the Roman historian and writer Pliny the Elder (Gaius Pliny Secundus, 23-79), who in his "Natural History" - reports that the artist Apelles (IV century BC), the court painter of Alexander the Great, had a rule not skip a single day so as not to make at least one stroke or stroke in the picture. The expression gained particular popularity after the publication (1961) of the book of prose miniatures by Yuri Olesha "Not a Day Without a Line".

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