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Miraculous staircase

Tarakhovskaya E.Ya.

Phraseologism: The staircase is amazing.

Meaning: Subway escalator (in conversation with children).

Origin: From the poem "Song about the stairs" by the Soviet writer Elizaveta Yakovlevna Tarakhovskaya (1895-1968): "The miracle staircase / Runs by itself." Published in the collection "Metropolitan" (1932), which was later called "Metro".

Random phraseology:

Bury talent in the ground.

Meaning:

Miss an opportunity.

Origin:

From the Bible. In the Gospel of Matthew (25:15-30), where this expression originates, it is about money. Talent is the name of an ancient Roman silver coin (from ancient Greek talanton - a coin of great denomination). The gospel parable tells how a certain man, leaving, instructed his slaves to protect property. To one servant he gave five talents, to another two, and to a third one. The first two slaves put the money "into business", that is, they gave it in growth, and the one who received one talent simply buried it in the ground in order to save it in the best possible way. When the master returned home, he demanded a report from the slaves. The first slave returned to him ten talents instead of five, the second - four instead of two, and the third gave the master the same one talent. And he explained to the owner that he saved the money by burying it. The master praised the first two slaves, and said to the third: "Cunning and lazy slave! ... you should have given my silver to the merchants, and if I came I would have received mine with a profit." Subsequently, the word "talent" began to mean abilities, talents, and the biblical phrase "bury talent in the ground" received a different, allegorical meaning - to neglect one's abilities, not to develop them, etc. The same passage from the Bible gave birth to another popular expression, now little-known, but commonly used in Russia in the 25th century: to him a talent, to him two - according to the above phrase in the Church Slavonic language (Gospel of Matthew, 15:XNUMX): "And to him I gave five talents, to him two, to him one ". This expression usually served as a commentary on the social (property) inequality of people or (which is closer to the modern interpretation of the biblical text) on the versatility, versatility of someone's talent, talent.

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