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Our Mirabeau
Davydov D.V.
Phraseologism: Our Mirabeau.
Meaning: About people who claim to be spiritual, the European level of civilization, but in reality have nothing to do with these concepts.
Origin: The expression belongs to the poet, famous partisan and hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, Denis Vasilievich Davydov (1784-1839): "Look - our Mirabeau // Old Gavril // For a crumpled jabot // Whipping in the mustache and in the snout ... // And you look - our Lafayette, // Brutus or Fabrizio // The peasant puts under the press // Together with the sugar beet ... "
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No comment (no comment)
Meaning:
From English "no comment".
Origin:
The turnover took hold shortly after World War II. On February 12, 1946, after a meeting with H. Truman in the White House, W. Churchill told reporters: "No comment" - and explained that he borrowed this expression from Sumner Wells, an American diplomat. However, the expression "Without any comments" existed already in the XNUMXth century, but not as a turn of political language. |
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