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Lucullean banquet

Plutarch

Phraseologism: Lucullean banquet.

Meaning: A plentiful feast and all kinds of gastronomic delights (jokingly).

Origin: According to the ancient Greek historian Plutarch, the immensely rich and wasteful consul and commander of Ancient Rome, Lucius Licinius Lucullus (c. 106-56 BC), used to arrange luxurious feasts and holidays, which all of Rome later spoke about.

Random phraseology:

This does not depend on me.

Meaning:

About the removal of responsibility for the onset of some event or the consequences associated with it (jokingly-iron.).

Origin:

From the fairy tale "About the Zealous Boss", which is part of the series of satirical essays "Modern Idyll" (1882) by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889). A slow-witted official, reading in one of the papers submitted to him for consideration: "It is necessary to close America again," remarks: "But it seems that this does not depend on me."

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