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Phraseologism: Put it on the back burner.

Meaning: Give the case a long delay, delay its decision for a long time.

Origin: 1. Perhaps this expression originated in Muscovite Russia, three hundred years ago. Tsar Alexei, father of Peter I, ordered in the village of Kolomenskoye in front of his palace to install a long box where anyone could drop their complaint. Complaints fell, but it was very difficult to wait for a decision: months and years passed. The people renamed this "long" box to "long". It is possible that the expression, if not born, was fixed in speech later, in "presences" - institutions of the 2th century. The then officials, accepting various petitions, complaints and petitions, undoubtedly sorted them, laying them out in different boxes. "Long" could be called the one where the most unhurried things were put off. It is clear that the petitioners were afraid of such a box, XNUMX) the most insignificant and unhurried petitions and complaints were put aside in the long drawer of the desk in Russian offices. Perhaps this is a tracing paper from the German language: etwas in die lange Truhe legen

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The Grapes of Wrath.

Meaning:

About ripening irritation, anger that can (not today - tomorrow) break out, pour out on those who caused them.

Origin:

From English: Grapes of Wrath. The title of the novel (1940) by the American writer John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968), who speaks in his novel about the ruin of large monopolies of farmers and about the moods that ripen among the latter: who didn't last long." The expression has a biblical source: in the New Testament, in the 14th Revelation of John the Theologian (Apocalypse), it is said about an angel who descended to earth and cut bunches of grapes, which he then threw into "the great winepress of God's wrath." And from there the blood flowed "even to the bridles of horses, for a thousand six hundred furlongs."

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