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Without a piece of paper - you are an insect

Lebedev-Kumach V.I.

Phraseologism: Without a piece of paper - you are an insect.

Meaning: Without a document, passport, diploma, certificate, etc., it is sometimes difficult for a person to prove even the very fact of his existence.

Origin: From "Song of a Bureaucrat", written by the Soviet poet Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach (real name - Lebedev) (1889-1949) for the pop review of the Moscow Press House "Question with an edge" (1931). Music by Konstantin Listov. "A piece of paper" here is a certificate, a document certifying something: "Without a piece of paper, you are a bug, // But with a piece of paper, you are a person."

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Wind of change.

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About dramatically changing circumstances, about the spirit of these changes..

Origin:

From English: Wind of Change. From a speech in Cape Town (South Africa, February 3, 1960) by African politician Harold Macmillan (1894-1986): "The wind of change blows over the continent." The world press called this year the "Year of Africa", because at that time a large number of former African colonies gained independence and became sovereign states.

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