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Mata Hari

Margareta Gertrude Zelle

Phraseologism: Mata Hari.

Meaning: About an adventurous woman.

Origin: A legendary World War I spy who was accused by the French authorities of passing secret information to Germany and executed. Real name - Margarita Gertrude Zelle (1876-1917), Dutch by birth, famous dancer. Since a considerable share in her repertoire was occupied by exotic oriental dances. she adopted the stage name Mata Hari to create a more intriguing image for herself. When in 1905 she offered the Parisian public oriental dances with stripping, her name immediately became widely known throughout the French capital. Legend and human rumor made M. Zelle the "queen of espionage", who easily communicated with the highest military officials of France and Germany, but the true role of this adventurous warehouse of a woman is not really fully clarified and, apparently, more modest than is commonly believed.

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Even before historical materialism.

Meaning:

In the days of tsarist Russia, before the Soviet period of its history (jokingly-iron.).

Origin:

From the novel "The Twelve Chairs" (1927) by Soviet writers Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942). The words of Ostap Bender, who specifies the age of the old women living in a nursing home: "Are those who were born before historical materialism?" (that is, before the advent of Marxist theory).

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