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We looked death in the face

Mikhail Svetlov

Phraseologism: We looked death in the face.

Meaning: About courage, fearlessness, the combat experience of a generation, and the difficult trials that fell to its lot.

Origin: From the German revolutionary song "Young Drummer Player" translated (1929) into Russian by the poet Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov (pseudonym of Mikhail Aronovich Sheinkman) (1903-1964), musically arranged by A. Davidenko. The song was written in honor of the young musician Fritz Weinecke from the orchestra of the Red Soldiers, who was killed by the police in Halle (1925): "We walked under the roar of cannonade, // We looked death in the face. // Detachments moved forward // Spartacists, brave fighters ".

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Pygmies.

Meaning:

Contemptuously about a morally, spiritually insignificant person.

Origin:

From Ancient Greek: Pigmaios. Literally: The size of a fist. In ancient Greek mythology, the fairy-tale people were called pygmies - dwarfs, who were so small that they often became victims of cranes, like frogs. Therefore, the dwarfs had to fight whole battles with these birds. The legendary poet of Ancient Greece Homer (IX century BC) in his poem "Iliad" mentions the enemies of the pygmies - cranes, which "Fleeing from winter and torrential rains, / Over the turbulent ocean sweep with a great noise, // Rod pygmies bringing death with them and murder, / In the early twilight with them entering into a fierce battle "Then the great scientist of Ancient Greece Aristotle (384-322 BC) remembered the pygmies. He called the pygmies a very real and small people, the existence of which in Africa, at the source of the Nile, was already known to the philosopher at that time. Aristotle and should be considered the author of the term, which is now firmly established in the scientific language and is used as a characteristic of the undersized peoples of Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania.

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