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The land of ugly idiots

Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov

Phraseologism: The land of ugly idiots.

Meaning: About strange, absurd, narrow-minded (from the point of view of the speaker) people.

Origin: From the Notebooks (published in 1966) by the Soviet writer Ilya Ilf (1897-1937): The land of unafraid idiots. It's time to be scared. Presumably, the original source of the expression is the title of Mikhail Prishvin's book "In the land of fearless birds. Onego-Belomorsky region" (1930).

Random phraseology:

After all, I'm a worm in comparison with him.

Meaning:

Someone tries to let me know that he is incomparably higher and better than me, but I treat it accordingly - condescendingly, with humor.

Origin:

A quote from Beranger's poem "The Noble Friend" ("Le senateur"), translated by V. S. Kurochkin (1856): "After all, I am a worm in comparison with him! // In comparison with him, // With such a face - // With his Excellency himself." The romance of A. S. Dargomyzhsky "Worm" was written to the words of this poem.

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