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Dear Closet
Chekhov A.P.
Phraseologism: Dear closet.
Meaning: The phrase is a symbol of pompous speeches, often heard at anniversaries, solemn meetings (jokingly ironic).
Origin: From the play (act. 1) "The Cherry Orchard" (1903) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1804). Gaev, a gentleman who "ate his entire fortune on candy" and was forced to sell his ancestral homestead, addresses an old bookcase with a pompous speech: "Dear, respected bookcase! I salute your existence, which for more than a hundred years has been directed towards the bright ideals of good and justice, your silent call for fruitful work has not weakened for a hundred years, maintaining (through tears) in the generations of our kind cheerfulness, faith in a better future and educating in us the ideals of goodness and social self-consciousness. From the memoirs of the founder of the Moscow Art Theater K. S. Stanislavsky about the anniversary honoring of A. P. Chekhov on the stage of his theater after the premiere of The Cherry Orchard (January 17, 1904): "One of the writers began his speech with almost the same words as Gaev greets the old closet in the first act: "Dear and respected (instead of the word" closet "the writer inserted the name of Anton Pavlovich) ... I greet you," etc. Anton Pavlovich glanced sideways at me, the performer Gaev, - and an insidious smile flickered on his lips" (Yu. Sobolev, Chekhov, M. 1934).
Random phraseology:
The tranquility of the cemetery.
Meaning:
On the lack of criticism in a totalitarian state.
Origin:
Words from the play "Don Carlos" (act. 3, yavl. 10) by Johann Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). The expression was very popular in Europe throughout the 1848th century. Thus, the participants in the revolution of XNUMX, which affected many European countries, called "the calm of the cemetery" the calm that monarchical governments established through cruel repressions. Approximately in the same, ironic, sense, the expression is used today. |
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