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mouse stallion
Gogol N.V.
Phraseologism: Mouse stallion.
Meaning: Youthful old red tape.
Origin: This expression, which has long existed in Russian oral speech, is first found in literature in the poem "Dead Souls" (1842) by N.V. Gogol (1809-1852): "He (Chichikov) naturally and deftly exchanged pleasant words with some of the ladies, approached one and the other with a fractional, small step, or, as they say, minced his legs, as the little old dandies in high heels, called mouse stallions, usually do, running very quickly around the ladies "(vol. I, ch. 8). "Mouse" - the name of the horse suit (gray). In a figurative sense: graying.
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Weather vane (political).
Meaning:
An unprincipled person who easily changes his principles and beliefs, conformist, opportunist (contempt.).
Origin:
The expression became popular in Russian socio-political vocabulary largely due to the famous quatrain by Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875), which he wrote as a free transcription of the poems of the German poet Heinrich Heine: "The sky is cloudless, there is no wind in the morning ... // In large weather vanes stick out in difficulty: // No matter how they guess, they won’t achieve it in any way, // In which direction should they turn? It was used to address unprincipled, corrupt politicians who easily changed their beliefs and positions. Sometimes these "political weathercocks" were contemptuously referred to as "members of the K.V.D. party" (an abbreviation meaning "where the wind blows"). |
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