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A lion is recognized by its claws

Plutarch

Phraseologism: A lion is recognized by its claws.

Meaning: By the part one can judge the whole, the level of skill, an outstanding author is easy to recognize even by an insignificant detail of his creation.

Origin: From Latin: Ex ungue leonem pingere. Translation: Draw a lion, starting this drawing with his claw. The expression goes back to an ancient Greek source. According to the historian Plutarch ("On the Oracles"), the author of these words is Alkey (VII century BC). According to the writer Lucian ("Hermotimus"), the great sculptor of Ancient Greece Phidias (c. 500 BC) once put it. Already in Ancient Rome, the expression began to be used in the modern sense: "by claws" (one of any signs) to recognize a person as a whole, that is, to recognize someone's "hand" (talent, mind) in any business. In modern Greece, folklore derivatives of the above expression still exist: "We recognize Hercules by the foot" (approved) and "They recognize the donkey by the ears" (disapproved). In Russian literature, for the first time it is found in the famous church leader and writer of the 1884th century. Dmitry Rostovsky: "A lion is known from nails" (Filaret. Review of Russian spiritual literature. St. Petersburg, XNUMX). There is also a modern, poetic version of this expression, owned by Boris Pasternak: "I recognize you by the claws, lioness" (applied, of course, to a woman).

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Chronicle of the announced death.

Meaning:

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Origin:

From Spanish: "Cronica de una muerte anunciada". The title of a novel (1981) by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1928-2014).

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