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Quasimodo

Victor Hugo

Phraseologism: Quasimodo.

Meaning: About a man with an ugly appearance.

Origin: From the novel "Notre Dame Cathedral" (1831) by the French romantic writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885). Quasimodo is a hunchbacked, ugly ringer. The name is a Latin turnover - Quasi modo - Something like ... - that is, in this case it can be translated as "Something that only remotely resembles a person."

Random phraseology:

Rough truth.

Meaning:

1. Truth, truth, real motives for actions, true background of events, etc. (ironic). 2. Common truth, masquerading as deep folk wisdom (iron.).

Origin:

From the novel The Golden Calf (1931) by Soviet writers Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942). Dialogue of Ostap Bender with Vasisualy Lokhankin (ch. 13): “Maybe it should be like that. Maybe this is the great homemade truth. . Sermyaga is a rough, undyed homespun cloth, from which outer peasant clothes were usually sewn.

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