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public pie

Saltykov-Shchedrin M.E.

Phraseologism: Public Pie.

Meaning: Public property, which has become the subject of division between those who, by virtue of their official position, have achieved the right to dispose of this property.

Origin: From the satires "Motley letters", "Well-meaning speeches" and other writer Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889). Shchedrin's other phrase is well-known: "When and what bureaucrat was not convinced that Russia is a pie to which one can freely approach and have a snack? None and never!"

Random phraseology:

From great to ridiculous one step.

Meaning:

1. Serious, important often alternates with funny. 2. It's easy to go from one extreme to another.

Origin:

The expression is a tracing-paper from the French Du sublime au ridicule il n "ya qu" un pas. This phrase was often repeated by Napoleon during his flight from Russia in 1812 to his ambassador in Warsaw de Pradt, who told about it in the book "History of the Embassy to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw" (1816). Its primary source is the expression of the French writer J. F. Marmontel (1723-1799): "In general, the funny comes into contact with the great."

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