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Much ado about nothing

William Shakespeare

Phraseologism: Much ado about nothing.

Meaning: About great excitement, fuss over an insignificant occasion, about noisy, emotional, but essentially empty conversations.

Origin: From English: Much ado about nothing. The title of a comedy (1600) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), which became a proverb in this translation by Tatyana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874-1952).

Random phraseology:

Lamb in paper.

Meaning:

Bribe.

Origin:

Money became paper not at once. Paradoxically, but bribery or bribery, perhaps even older than them. There were times when offerings were taken in kind, for example, by the same rams or cows, and this was in the order of things. And then money flooded everything. The lamb became paper. Of course, in a figurative sense.

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