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Well, is your darling happy now?

Pushkin A.S.

Phraseologism: Well, is your darling happy now?

Meaning: Words addressed to a person whose request or whim is fulfilled by the speaker (ironic).

Origin: From "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" (1833) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837). The fisherman's words, addressed to his capricious, greedy and stupid old woman wife, who became, thanks to the goldfish, a "free queen": "He bowed at the feet of the old woman, // Said:" Hello, formidable queen! // Well, is your darling happy now?" // The old woman did not look at him, // She only told him to drive him away from her eyes.

Random phraseology:

That's where the dog is buried!

Meaning:

That's the thing, that's the real reason.

Origin:

There is a story: the Austrian warrior Sigismund Altensteig spent all campaigns and battles with his beloved dog. Once, while traveling in the Netherlands, the dog even saved his owner from death. The grateful warrior solemnly buried his four-legged friend and erected a monument on his grave, which stood for more than two centuries - until the beginning of the XNUMXth century. Later, the dog monument could be found by tourists only with the help of local residents. At that time, the saying "That's where the dog is buried!" Was born, which now has the meaning: "I found what I was looking for", "got to the bottom of the matter." But there is an older and no less likely source of the proverb that has come down to us. When the Greeks decided to give the Persian king Xerxes a battle at sea, they put old men, women and children on ships in advance and transported them to the island of Salamis. They say that the dog that belonged to Xanthippus, the father of Pericles, did not want to part with his master, jumped into the sea and swam, following the ship, reached Salamis. Exhausted from fatigue, she immediately died. According to the historian of antiquity Plutarch, this dog was placed on the seashore with a kinosema - a canine monument, which was shown to the curious for a very long time. Some German linguists believe that this expression was created by treasure hunters, who, out of fear of the evil spirit that allegedly guarded every treasure, did not dare to directly mention the purpose of their search and conditionally began to talk about a black dog, meaning the trait and the treasure. Thus, according to this version, the expression "that's where the dog is buried" meant: "that's where the treasure is buried."

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