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One swallow does not make spring

Krylov I.A.

Phraseologism: 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."

Random phraseology:

There are also judges in Berlin.

Meaning:

It is used ironically, with the appropriate replacement of the word Berlin for the characteristics of judicial arbitrariness.

Origin:

In the panegyric biographies of the Prussian king Frederick II, the story is told that he once wished to demolish the mill in his residence of Sanssouci. The miller, to whom it belonged, went to court. The case was decided in his favor, and the king obeyed the court order and did not touch the mill. This anecdote served as the subject for the French story "The Miller from Sanssouci" (1797), which was included in all anthologies of French literature. Its author, Francois Andrier (1759-1833), who was at one time a judge, put into the mouth of the miller who won the trial, the exclamation: "Don't be judges in Berlin ..." This phrase received circulation in the form: "There are still judges in Berlin ", often quoted in French: "II y a des juges a Berlin!"

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