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Phraseologism: Dead letter.
Meaning: The formal, external side of a case, which hides (perverts) the very essence of this case.
Origin: From French: Lettre tnorte. The original source is the Bible. In the Second Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians (3:6) it is said: "He gave us the ability to be ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit, because the letter kills, but the spirit gives life." These words gave birth to another well-known expression - "the spirit and the letter of the law."
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The Moor has done his job; the Moor may leave.
Meaning:
The phrase is a symbol of a consumer attitude towards a person who was first cynically used for any purpose, and then, instead of gratitude, turned away from him.
Origin:
From German: Der Mohr hat seine Schuldigkeit getan, der Mohr kann gehen. Sometimes these words are erroneously attributed to the Venetian Moor Othello, the protagonist of W. Shakespeare's play "Othello". In fact, this phrase is from the play (act. 3, yavl. 4) "The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa" (1783) by the German poet Johann Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). Russian translation (1804) by Nikolai Ivanovich Gnedich (1784-1833). This phrase is uttered by one of the characters in the play - the Moor - after he helped Count Fiesco organize an uprising against Doge Doria, the tyrant of Genoa, and soon discovered that the conspirators no longer needed him, that they saw in him only a tool to achieve their goals. Schiller's play is based on real events in Genoa in 1547. |
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