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Flying Dutchman

Richard Wagner

Phraseologism: Flying Dutchman.

Meaning: 1. About a constantly traveling, wandering person, a wanderer. 2. About a restless, restless, constantly fussing person (often joking).

Origin: The turnover is tracing paper with it. "der fliegende Hollander". It goes back to the medieval legend about the captain, who swore in a storm to go around the cape blocking the way, even if it cost him his life and lasted forever. For his pride, he was punished by fate: the ghost of the captain and his ghostly ship have been rushing around the sea forever since then. It is considered bad luck for sailors to see him on their way. In German and other modern European languages, the expression became popular with Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman (1841).

Random phraseology:

Ah, what a passage!

Meaning:

About his surprise, bewilderment (iron.).

Origin:

From the comedy The Inspector General (1836) by N. V. Gogol (1809-1852). The words of the daughter of the Governor Marya Antonovna (act. 4, yavl. 13), which she utters when she sees Khlestakov kneeling in front of her mother Anna Andreevna.

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