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Looking for a man

Aesop
Aesop

Phraseologism: Looking for a person.

Meaning: It is not so easy to find a person who, in terms of his moral qualities, really meets this binding title.

Origin: From Latin: Hominem quaero. As the Greek writer Diogenes Laertes (III century) wrote in his essay "The Life, Teachings and Opinions of Famous Philosophers", once the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes from Sinope (400-325 BC) lit a lantern during the day and began to walk with it through crowded places of Athens. To all perplexed questions, he answered briefly: "I am looking for a person." Thus, he showed the Athenians that it was extremely difficult to find among them a person worthy of this title. This work of Diogenes Laertes formed the basis of the well-known legend about the great philosopher. There is another version of the origin of this phrase, which was outlined in one of his writings by the Roman poet Phaedrus (15 BC - 70 AD). Once the great fabulist Aesop went to his neighbors for a fire to cook dinner for his master (Aesop was a slave). When he returned home with a lit lamp, a certain idle person stuck to him and began to taunt: "Why, Aesop, are you walking around with fire during the day?" To which Aesop replied: "I'm looking for a man."

Random phraseology:

Our man in Havana.

Meaning:

About "his" person somewhere (jokingly-iron.).

Origin:

From English: Our man in Havana. The title of a novel (1958) by the English writer Graham Greene (1904-1991) about a man who accidentally became a resident of British intelligence in Cuba.

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