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Manilov. Manilovshchina

Gogol N.V.

Phraseologism: Manilov. Manilovshchina.

Meaning: About fruitless projects, unrealistic plans and about empty, idle daydreaming in general.

Origin: Manilov is one of the heroes of N.V. Gogol's poem "Dead Souls", part 1, ch. 2 (1842), a landowner, sugary-sweet in dealing with his family and guests, a sentimental, fruitless dreamer. "Sometimes, looking from the porch at the yard and the pond, he would say how nice it would be if all of a sudden to lead an underground passage from the house or build a stone bridge across the pond, on which there would be shops on both sides, and so that in them merchants sat and sold various small goods needed by the peasants. At the same time, his eyes became extremely sweet and his face assumed the most contented expression, however, all these projects ended in only one word ... "

Random phraseology:

Look back in anger.

Meaning:

Quoted as a call for calm, sound consideration of the problem.

Origin:

From English: "Look back in anger". The title of a play (1956, Russian translation 1959) by English playwright John Osborne (1929-1994) about post-war English youth who come into conflict with traditional social values.

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