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Fragment of an empire

"Fragment of an Empire"

Phraseologism: Fragment of an empire.

Meaning: About a man of the old time, about someone who was formed and took place under a different social system, in a different society (jokingly ironic).

Origin: The title of a film (1929) directed by Friedrich Ermler (1898-1967) from a screenplay co-written with Katerina Winogradskaya (1905-1973). Probably, this expression goes back to the poem "The Fifth of May" (1821) by the French poet Pierre Jean Beranger (translated by I. and A. Tkhorzhevsky): "The empire is a fragment, I am in sorrow // There, far away, I fled to India ..."

Random phraseology:

Horses at the crossing do not change.

Meaning:

At a decisive moment for business, neither plans nor people change.

Origin:

Anglo-American proverb. It entered the socio-political vocabulary of the United States and other countries after it was heard in a speech delivered in 1864 by the 16th President of the United States (1861-1865) Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) on the occasion of his candidacy for a second presidential term .

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