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Shine and poverty

Honore de Balzac

Phraseologism: Shine and poverty.

Meaning: About opposite sides of the same object.

Origin: From the title of the novel "Shine and Poverty of the Courtesans" by the French writer Honore de Balzac (1799-1850). Courtesans are kept women, mistresses of people from high society. The phrase served as the basis for the formation of expressions of the same type, which speak of the contradictory (paradoxical) sides of a phenomenon - "brilliance and poverty ..." (of someone, something).

Random phraseology:

One swallow does not make spring.

Meaning:

About false or insufficient signs of something.

Origin:

From the fable of the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop (VI century BC) about a young man who squandered all his father's inheritance. Of it, he kept only a cloak, in which he wrapped himself in winter. And when he saw the first swallow that arrived, he decided that now he did not need it either, since spring had come. But the frosts hit, the swallow died, and it became clear that the young man was cruelly mistaken in hastening to part with a warm cloak. On the same plot, I. A. Krylov wrote the fable "Mot and Swallow" (1818), in which this expression is called a folk proverb: "Yes, he just forgot the proverb among the people: / That a swallow alone does not make spring."

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