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Panama

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Phraseologism: Panama.

Meaning: Large-scale scam, fraud, corruption and abuse in the implementation of any major project (disapproved, scorned).

Origin: The expression became a household name after the scandalous trial (1888-1890) of the builder of the Panama Canal, French business engineer Ferdinand Lesseps (1805-1894), his son and a number of directors of the company. The essence of the accusation: they received about one and a half billion francs in gold for the construction work, although they actually completed only a third of this amount. In addition, the company was also "famous" for the fact that during the process itself, it spent significant money on bribing the press and French statesmen in order to mitigate the sentence. The main contractor for the canal was the French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), the builder of the famous tower that became the symbol of Paris.

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Without a piece of paper - you are an insect.

Meaning:

Without a document, passport, diploma, certificate, etc., it is sometimes difficult for a person to prove even the very fact of his existence.

Origin:

From "Song of a Bureaucrat", written by the Soviet poet Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach (1889-1949) for the pop review of the Moscow Press House "Question by edge" (1931). Music by Konstantin Listov. "A piece of paper" here is a certificate, a document certifying something: "Without a piece of paper, you are a bug, // But with a piece of paper, you are a person."

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