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Either go to the snout or handle

Saltykov-Shchedrin M.E.

Phraseologism: Either in the snout or a pen, please.

Meaning: 1. About the one who humiliates the lower, but grovels before the higher. 2. About one who is subject to a quick change of mood, easily changes his opinions, addictions, etc. (ironic).

Origin: From the satire "Ghosts of Time" (chapter "Russian "walking people" abroad", 1863) by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889): "I have not been abroad, but I can easily imagine the situation of a Russian who crawled out of his shell in order to show himself and see people ... In Russia, he rode on a relay and beat coachmen in the teeth, abroad he moved into a carriage and does not know how and to whom to pour out his grateful soul. He flirts with the conductor and seeks to kiss him on the shoulder (because, as you know, we don’t have a middle, either in the snout or the handle, please!) ".

Random phraseology:

He whipped himself, the non-commissioned officer's widow whipped herself.

Meaning:

About a person who ran into trouble that he caused himself, harmed himself with his words or actions (iron.).

Origin:

The turnover arose in the middle of the 1836th century and is a rethinking of the words of Gorodnichiy in N.V. Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector" (XNUMX). The mayor, responding to the complaint of a non-commissioned officer's widow illegally flogged by the authorities, justifies himself with the absurd assertion that she flogged herself.

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