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Do not make food a cult!

Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov

Phraseologism: Do not make food a cult!

Meaning: It is jokingly-ironically quoted as a suggestion not to be too picky about food, to be content with what you have.

Origin: From the novel (ch. 6 "Gnu Antelope") "The Golden Calf" (1931) by Soviet writers Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942). The words of Ostap Bender addressed to Panikovsky: “The inexperienced Panikovsky lit such a large fire that it seemed that the whole village was on fire. The fire, sniffling, rushed in all directions. a warm crooked cucumber in his hand. Ostap quickly snatched it from Panikovsky's hands, saying: "Don't make a cult out of food. After that, he ate the cucumber himself."

Random phraseology:

Chimera.

Meaning:

Something unreal, a figment of the imagination, an empty fiction, a pseudoscientific theory, etc. (iron., contempt.).

Origin:

From ancient Greek mythology. Chimera - a fire-breathing monster, described variously by ancient authors. So, Homer in the Iliad reports that the chimera has the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a dragon. Hesiod in Theogony states that the chimera is a monster with three heads: a lion, a goat, a dragon. Already in ancient times, the chimera became a household name for any attempt to connect the incompatible.

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