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Sadly I look at our generation!
Lermontov M.Yu.
Phraseologism: Sadly I look at our generation!
Meaning: About contemporaries whose behavior disappoints, upsets the speaker (jokingly-iron.).
Origin: From the poem "Duma" (1838) by M. Yu. Lermontov (1814-1841): "I look sadly at our generation! // Its future is either empty or dark."
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Lift the veil of secrecy.
Meaning:
Share a secret, tell something hitherto unknown, etc.
Origin:
Derived from the now obsolete expression "veil of Isis". In ancient Egypt, the goddess Isis (the wife of Osiris, "the dying and resurrecting god") was revered as the keeper of the innermost secrets of nature and the personification of her vitality. On the temple of Isis in the city of Sais there was an inscription: "I am what was, is and will be: none of the mortals lifted my veil." The expression "veil of Isis" came into use after the publication of the poem "The Closed Statue in Sais" ("Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais") by the German romantic poet Johann Friedrich Schiller. In it, the priest of the Saisi temple explains to his student that behind the veil that hides the statue of Isis, the truth itself is hidden. But no one dares to touch this veil, and only the goddess herself can do this - to reveal the truth to the world. The expression "veil of Isis" was used in the sense: a cover (veil) of mystery, hiding certain revelations, unknown truths. Accordingly, lift (raise, etc.) the "veil of Isis" - to know these truths. Gilbert Chesterton (short story "Sky Arrow"): "He's an amateur mystic," Brown responded with naive readiness. "There are a lot of them now. You know, the ones that sit in a Parisian cafe or in a cabaret and fool your head as if they had torn off the coverlet Isis or discovered the secret of Stonehenge (prehistoric stone structures of unknown purpose in England. - Comp.). For such a case, they always have some mystical explanation." |
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