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Better a terrible end than endless horror

Homer
Homer

Phraseologism: Better a terrible end than endless horror.

Meaning: About the desire to somehow put an end to the intolerable, extremely difficult state of affairs.

Origin: From German: Eher Ende mit Schrecken als Schrecken ohne Ende. This idea is found in antiquity: both in Homer and in Aesop (the fable about hares). But this phrase entered modern speech as a motto under which the Prussian officer and patriot Ferdinand Schill (1776-1809) in the city of Arneburg stood at the head of his hussar regiment on the path of struggle against Napoleonic rule (1809). In the same year, F. Schill died: he was captured by the French and shot by order of Napoleon. In Russian speech, up to the 30s. XX century., This expression usually sounded in the original language - in German.

Random phraseology:

Fragment of an empire.

Meaning:

About a man of the old time, about someone who was formed and took place under a different social system, in a different society (jokingly ironic).

Origin:

The title of a film (1929) directed by Friedrich Ermler (1898-1967) from a screenplay co-written with Katerina Winogradskaya (1905-1973). Probably, this expression goes back to the poem "The Fifth of May" (1821) by the French poet Pierre Jean Beranger (translated by I. and A. Tkhorzhevsky): "The empire is a fragment, I am in sorrow // There, far away, I fled to India ..."

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