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We parted like ships at sea

Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov

Phraseologism: We parted like ships at sea.

Meaning: About the rupture of past relationships between lovers (business partners, friends).

Origin: From the romance "Ships" (no later than 1925). Words and music - by the poet Boris Alekseevich Prozorovsky: "We never loved each other // In our hearts we did not carry greetings, // We did not appreciate chance meetings and glances, // And they dispersed like ships at night." Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov (the novel "The Twelve Chairs", ch. 28): "Ostap realized that it was time to leave. There is no time to hug," he said, "farewell, darling! We parted like ships in the sea. Guard!! - screamed widow".

Random phraseology:

Set horns on someone.

Meaning:

To deceive the husband (about the wife, as well as about the wife's lover) (colloquial irony).

Origin:

This expression is known in many European languages, but its origin is debatable. Here are some versions: 1) borrowed from German. The wives of the ancient Germans, seeing off their husbands to war, put a helmet with horns on their heads. In the language of women, putting horns on a husband meant equipping her husband on a campaign and remaining free, 2) from the myth of Actaeon, who spied on the bathing goddess Diana and was turned into a deer by her, 3) in the German imperial decree of 1427, being in the army was prohibited with his wife, who violated this prohibition had to wear horns, 4) the Byzantine emperor Andronicus Komnenos (1183-1185) allowed the husbands of those women with whom he had love affairs to hunt in his menagerie. Deer antlers were displayed on the gates of such people, jokingly they said about such a person that he had horns on his forehead.

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