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Looking for firefighters, looking for the police

Marshak S.Ya.

Phraseologism: Looking for firefighters, looking for police.

Meaning: A jokingly ironic commentary on a long, unsuccessful search.

Origin: From the poem "The Story of an Unknown Hero" by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (1887-1964). We are talking about a modest hero - a guy who saved a girl in a fire and disappeared without waiting for gratitude: can find, // Some guy // About twenty years old".

Random phraseology:

Cornerstone (foundation stone).

Meaning:

1. Foundation, foundation of something. 2. Basis, the main idea of something (book).

Origin:

The expression came from the Old Slavonic language, its original meaning: "a stone lying at the base of any building." In Russian villages even now large stones are placed under the corner of the house. This expression is found in the Bible: "I lay in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a cornerstone, firmly established" (Isaiah 28:16).

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