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Moment of the truth

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Phraseologism: The moment of truth.

Meaning: 1. Climax. 2. A moment of insight.

Origin: So in the Spanish bullfight is called the decisive moment of the duel, when it becomes clear who will be the winner - the bull or the matador. The expression became popular after it appeared in the novel "Death in the Afternoon" (1932) by American writer Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961). Allegorically: the moment when the truth becomes obvious, the moment of insight. For example, the title of the novel by the Soviet writer Vladimir Bogomolov about Soviet counterintelligence officers is "The Moment of Truth" ("In August forty-fourth..."), in which the author gives such an interpretation of this expression - "the moment of obtaining information conducive to establishing the truth."

Random phraseology:

Great fracture.

Meaning:

A critical moment in any business, promising supposedly better times (iron.).

Origin:

From the article "The Year of the Great Break" by I.V. Stalin (1878-1953), published in the newspaper Pravda on November 7, 1929. Its first paragraph: "The past year was the year of a great turning point on all fronts of socialist construction. This turning point was continues to march under the sign of the decisive offensive of socialism against the capitalist elements in town and country. The expression "great turning point" was immediately taken up by party propaganda and began to mean the beginning of "complete collectivization" in the countryside and the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class," that is, the actual nationalization of the land with the organization of state enterprises on it in the form of collective farms and state farms.

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