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Retired goat drummer

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Phraseologism: A retired goat drummer.

Meaning: About a person of little importance, who does not have any position or who has lost it (colloquial joking).

Origin: The emergence of the expression is associated with an old folk spectacle, in which the leader with a bear, a boy dressed up as a goat and a drummer participated.

Random phraseology:

Where the table was food, there is a coffin.

Meaning:

About the close proximity of the tragic and the joyful, about the fragile, thin line between life and death.

Origin:

A quote from a poem by G. R. Derzhavin "On the death of Prince Meshchersky" (1779): "Son of luxury, coolness and bliss, // Where, Meshchersky, have you hidden yourself? // You left this life on the shore, // To the shores of the dead you departed... // Where there was a table of dishes, there is a coffin, // Where faces of feasts were heard, // Tombstone cliques howl there // And pale Death looks at everyone..."

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