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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Noam Chomsky
Phraseologism: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Meaning: The concept of "grammatically correct" cannot be identified with the concepts of "meaningful", "meaningful" in any semantic sense.
Origin: An example used by Noam Chomsky in Syntactic Structures (1957) to demonstrate the non-equivalence of grammaticality and meaningfulness.
Random phraseology:
The corpse of the enemy smells good.
Meaning:
About the triumph of the winner.
Origin:
From Latin: "Optime olere occisum hostem". Literally: "The enemy's bones smell best." The words of the Roman emperor (69 AD) Aulus Vitellius (15-69), who, according to the Roman historian Suetonius ("Life of the Twelve Caesars"), said them after a battle with his predecessor, Mark Salvius Otho. The latter was proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian Guard and then deposed by Vitellius. Trying to defend his throne, Otho started a war with the "successor", but was defeated by his troops and, wanting to avoid captivity and shame, stabbed himself with a dagger. By the time Vitellius himself arrived on the battlefield to enjoy the spectacle of victory, some time had already passed. Feeling the smell of smoldering, one of the companions of the new emperor made a grimace. To which Vitellius objected: "The corpse of the enemy always smells good." But, returning to Rome, Vitellius did not rule for long. According to Suetonius, this emperor "with a face red from constant drunkenness and a thick belly" was torn to pieces by the Romans - supporters of Vespassian, who succeeded him on the imperial throne. "Fortunately for the state, Vitellius was defeated," the Roman historian Tacitus commented on this event. |
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