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Lion's share

Krylov I.A.

Phraseologism: Lion's share.

Meaning: About the right of the strong.

Origin: The expression goes back to the fable "Lion, Fox and Eagle" by the legendary ancient Greek fabulist Aesop (VI BC), who tells how these three predators divide their prey. Later, the same plot was used by other authors - Phaedrus and La Fontaine. The Russian fabulist I. A. Krylov developed the same theme. In his fable "The Lion at the Catching" (1808), four heroes - the Lion, the Wolf, the Fox and the Dog - agreed that they would "catch" the animals (that is, hunt) together, and share the prey equally. When the Wolf, the Fox and the Dog drove the deer, the Lion approached them and began a "fair" division: "We, brothers, are four." // And for four he tears the deer apart. // "Now let's share! Look, friends: // This part is mine // By agreement, // This part belongs to me, like a Leo, without a dispute, // This one belongs to me because I am stronger than all, / / And to this little one of you only a paw will be stretched out, / He will not get up from his place alive.

Random phraseology:

To the right of me - only a wall.

Meaning:

About the representative of radical views.

Origin:

Words (1916) of a landowner, a well-known nationalist, one of the founders of the Union of the Russian People, the organizer of the chamber of Mikhail the Archangel, an ultra-right deputy of the II-IV State Dumas from the Bessarabia province Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich (1870-1920). The phrase was also attributed to the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod A. Shirinsky-Shikhmatov. The expression is probably borrowed from the political language of England at the end of the 1849th century. "There was only a wall to the right of them," British politician Randolph Churchill (1895-XNUMX) said of Conservative parliamentarians.

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