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Like water off a duck's back

Proverbs and sayings

Phraseologism: Like water off a duck's back.

Meaning: Someone is absolutely indifferent to something, nothing at all, something decisively does not affect anyone (disapproved).

Origin: Due to the fatty lubrication of the plumage, water rolls off the goose easily. Such an observation was transferred to healers' formulas, proverbs, sayings.

Random phraseology:

Life is a struggle.

Meaning:

In order to live with dignity, in accordance with your principles, goals, interests, you must constantly fight for them, defend them, etc.

Origin:

It is first found in ancient literature. So, in the tragedy of Euripides "The Petitioners" it is said: "Our life is a struggle." In the 96th "Letter" of the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annei Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD) it is said: "To live, my Lucilius, means to fight." The expression became especially popular thanks to the French enlightener Voltaire (1694-1778), who in his tragedy "Fanaticism, or the Prophet Mohammed" put the phrase into the mouth of Mohammed: "My life is a struggle."

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