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O holy simplicity!

Jan Hus
Jan Hus

Phraseologism: O holy simplicity!

Meaning: About a naive person.

Origin: From Latin: "O sancta simplicitas!" Legend attributes these words to Jan Hus (1371-1415), the leader of the Czech national liberation movement. Sentenced by the church council as a heretic to be burned, he, as is commonly believed, uttered these words, already standing at the stake, when he saw how an old woman, in a fit of religious zeal, threw into the fire the brushwood she had brought. However, historians who studied eyewitness accounts of the death of Jan Hus did not find any confirmation of this legend. In fact, this expression is much older. It was first heard back in the 345th century: according to the church writer Turanius Rufinus (c. 410-325) in his continuation of Eusebius' History of the Church, the words "holy simplicity" were uttered by one of the theologians at the First Council of Nicaea in XNUMX.

Random phraseology:

How a London dandy is dressed.

Meaning:

About a man who is dressed fashionably, in everything new - "from the needle" (jokingly-iron.)

Origin:

From the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" (1823-1831) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837) (1, stanza 4): "Here is my Onegin at large, // Cut in the latest fashion, // Dressed like a London dandy - // And finally saw the light."

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