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Mickey Mouse Cup

Everton FC

Phraseologism: Mickey Mouse Cup.

Meaning: Unimportant trophy, competition.

Origin: A contemptuous expression used predominantly in English football to describe an unimportant and non-prestigious football trophy won by a team. The expression can be both pejorative and even offensive connotation, and playful coloring. For the first time, such a term was heard from the lips of Liverpool fans in relation to their most principled opponent - Everton. In 1977, Everton reached the final of the Football League Cup, which caused ridicule from the Liverpool team, who had already collected the “European treble” by that time and thereby belittled the achievements of Everton.

Random phraseology:

A series of magical changes to a cute face.

Meaning:

about people who are unstable in their position, changing their beliefs, principles, or just their appearance.

Origin:

From the poem "Whisper, timid breathing ..." (1850) by Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet (1820-1892): "Whisper, timid breathing, // Trills of the nightingale, // Silver and swaying // Sleepy stream. // Night light, night shadows, // Shadows without end, // A series of magical changes // of a pretty face." In A. N. Tolstoy's novel "Walking Through the Torments", a gymnasium teacher, after the arrival of whites in the city, is transformed for half an hour and appears on the street "dressed, in a starched shirt, holding a uniform cap and a cane." And one of the street ragamuffins "looked humorously at the passing gymnasium teacher: - A series of magical changes in a wonderful face," he said in a distinct bass voice.

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