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Search a woman

Phraseologism: Search a woman

French
French.

Meaning: The culprit of every event is a woman (often joking).

Origin: From French: Cherchez la femme. In Russian transliteration: "chershe la femme". The author of this expression is Parisian police lieutenant Gabriel de Sartin (1729-1801), who gave (1759) this advice to his colleagues - especially in those cases when it is not possible to solve the crime in hot pursuit. G. de Sartin was sure that in all complex cases, one way or another, a woman is involved - sometimes as the cause of the crime, sometimes as a concomitant circumstance. Accordingly, finding this woman means solving a crime. The expression became popular thanks to the novel "The Mohicans of Paris" by the French writer Alexandre Dumas-père (1802-1870), who later wrote a play of the same name based on this novel (1864). Both in the novel (part III, 10 and 11) and in the play (act. 2, yavl. 16), these words sound like a favorite saying of a Parisian police official, the prototype for which was lieutenant Gabriel de Sartin. The expression was widely known in Russia in the 6th century, where even its local variants were born. For example, Pigasov, one of the heroes of I. S. Turgenev's novel "Rudin", upon hearing a story about some incident, invariably asks: "What is her name?" - meaning the woman who caused this misfortune to happen. The probable primary source of this expression is the 60th satire of the Roman satirist poet Juvenal (c. 127-c. XNUMX), where there are such words: "There is hardly such a lawsuit in which a woman would not be the cause of the quarrel."

Random phraseology:

Eat honey and locusts.

Meaning:

Live starving.

Origin:

From the Bible. The Gospel of Mark (1:6) tells of John the Baptist, who, during his life in the desert, "ate locusts and wild honey." Akrids (Greek) - a genus of locusts, according to another interpretation - the leaves of the locust shrub.

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