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Broken hour

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Phraseologism: Dead hour.

Meaning: A very long time.

Origin: The origin of the combination is purely Russian, it is associated with the appearance in the middle of the XNUMXth century. the first hours with a fight. The beaten hour is originally the time from one strike of the clock to the next.

Random phraseology:

O people! Creation of crocodiles!

Meaning:

Used for comically exaggerated, pathetic and ironic condemnation of hypocrisy, duplicity, cruelty, ill will, etc.

Origin:

From the tragedy (act. 1, scene 2) "Robbers" (1781) by Johann Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). The words of Karl Moor: "People, people! The offspring of crocodiles! Your tears are water! Your hearts are hard damask steel! Kisses are daggers in the chest!" Translation (1828) by the Russian writer and translator Nikolai Khristoforovich Ketcher (1809-1886). In Russia, the phrase became popular after the staging of the play "The Forest" by A. N. Ostrovsky (1823-1886), where these words of Moora are recited, exaggerating Schiller's pathos, by the provincial actor Neschastlivtsev (act. 5, fig. 9).

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