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Sing Lazarus Poor as Lazarus

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Phraseologism: Sing Lazarus, Poor as Lazarus.

Meaning: Complain about fate, pretend to be unhappy (colloquial contempt.).

Origin: The expression arose from the Gospel, from the parable of the poor Lazarus, who lay in scabs at the rich man's gate and would be glad to eat at least the crumbs falling from his table. In the old days, crippled beggars, begging for alms, sang "spiritual verses" and especially often "a verse about poor Lazarus", created on the plot of the gospel parable.

Random phraseology:

Twenty-two misfortunes.

Meaning:

Unlucky, unlucky person.

Origin:

From the play The Cherry Orchard (1903) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904). This is how the heroes of the play jokingly call the clerk Epikhodov, with whom some kind of comic trouble always happens. An analogue of "poor Makar, on whom all the bumps fall."

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