A scammer sits on a scammer and drives a scammer. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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The scammer sits on the scammer and drives the scammer

Gogol N.V.

Phraseologism: A fraudster sits on a fraudster and chases a fraudster.

Meaning: About some institution where, according to the speaker, only swindlers and corrupt officials work, who have turned the public service into their feeding trough.

Origin: From the poem (vol. I, ch. 5) "Dead Souls" (1842) by N. V. Gogol (1809-1852). The words of the landowner Sobakevich, said in a conversation with Chichikov: “I know them all: they are all swindlers, the whole city is like that: a swindler sits on a swindler and drives a scammer. to tell the truth, a pig."

Random phraseology:

Stick your tongue to my larynx.

Meaning:

Usually this phrase is quoted in Church Slavonic, jokingly ironically, meaning to lose the gift of speech, to become dumb. A jokingly exaggerated expression of the fullness of feelings.

Origin:

From the Bible. Old Testament, Psalter (21:16) (Church Slavonic text): "... My tongue is attached to my larynx." Russian translation of the entire verse: "My strength withered like a shard, my tongue clung to my throat, and You reduced me to the dust of death."

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