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Dancing to someone else's tune

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Phraseologism: Dancing to someone else's tune.

Meaning: Obey someone else's will, blindly follow someone else's opinion.

Origin: It is first encountered by the "father of history", the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (11th century BC), who in the first book of his "History" cites the following episode from the biography of the Persian king Cyrus. When Cyrus conquered the Greek Medes, the Greeks of Asia Minor, whom he had previously unsuccessfully persuaded to an alliance with Persia, hastened to declare their consent. Then the Persian king told their messengers a fable, which is attributed to the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop (VI century BC): hoping, he took the net, threw it and pulled out a lot of fish.Seeing how the fish are fighting in the nets, he said to them: "Stop dancing, when I played the flute, you did not want to go out and dance. "Almost unchanged, this expression entered into So, in the Gospel of Matthew (17:7) and the Gospel of Luke (32:XNUMX) it says: "We played the flute for you, and you did not dance."

Random phraseology:

Marilov. Manilovshchina.

Meaning:

About fruitless projects, unrealistic plans and about empty, idle daydreaming in general.

Origin:

Manilov is one of the heroes of N.V. Gogol's poem "Dead Souls", part 1, ch. 2 (1842), a landowner, sugary-sweet in dealing with his family and guests, a sentimental, fruitless dreamer. "Sometimes, looking from the porch at the yard and the pond, he would say how nice it would be if all of a sudden to lead an underground passage from the house or build a stone bridge across the pond, on which there would be shops on both sides, and so that in them merchants sat and sold various small goods needed by the peasants. At the same time, his eyes became extremely sweet and his face assumed the most contented expression, however, all these projects ended in only one word ... "

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