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Mighty bunch

Mighty bunch

Phraseologism: Mighty bunch.

Meaning: A creative community of cultural, art or scientific figures, as well as an association of people passionate about a common idea, solving a certain problem (jokingly).

Origin: From the review of the Russian art critic and scientist Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov (1824-1906) of a concert arranged in honor of the arrival of the Slavic delegation in St. Petersburg ("St. Petersburg Vedomosti" dated May 13, 1867). "Mighty handful" he called the prevailing in the 60s of the XIX century. a group of Russian composers of the "new Russian musical school" headed by M. A. Balakirev - M. P. Mussorgsky, A. P. Borodin, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, Ts. A. Cui. V. V. Stasov concluded his review with the words: "Let's end our notes with a wish: God grant that our Slavic guests never forget today's concert, God grant that they forever keep the memory of how much poetry, feelings, talent and skill a small, but already powerful handful of Russian musicians" (V. Stasov, Sobr. soch., Vol. III, St. Petersburg, 1894). But, if Stasov himself spoke of the mighty handful almost enthusiastically, then many of his contemporaries at first used this expression only in an ironic sense. The beginning of this was laid by the composer A. N. Serov, who, from an adherent of the Balakirev circle, became his harsh critic ("Notes against notes", "Music and Theater", 1867, No. 6). And such a playfully ironic attitude towards this association persisted for quite a long time. Thus, the music critic "Rostislav" (pseudonym of F. M. Tolstoy) wrote in his reviews published under the title "Petersburg Letters" (the newspaper "Moskovskie Vedomosti" dated January 21, 1875): "Yesterday the opera was performed for the first time" Demon" by A. G. Rubinshtein... Judging by some hissing... we should expect an attack from the so-called (jokingly) mighty bunch." But, despite the fact that Stasov's expression was ridiculed by many at its appearance, later it firmly entered the Russian language as a definition of an outstanding phenomenon of Russian musical culture. (And the members of this association were even called "Kuchkists", like members of any other creative associations).

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On an indiscriminate attitude towards the way in which the money was received (disapproved).

Origin:

Expression - tracing paper from lat. "Pecunia non olet", which is a saying of the emperor Vespasian (9-79) quoted by the historian Suetonius in the Life of the Twelve Caesars. When Vespasian's son reproached him for imposing a tax on public latrines, the emperor held the first money from this tax to his nose and asked if it smelled. “But they are from urine,” Vespasian said when his son gave a negative answer.

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