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Mute

Mute
Mute

Phraseologism: Under mute.

Meaning: Quietly, stealthily, without drawing attention to yourself.

Origin: A mute in the language of musicians is a small device with which you can weaken, muffle the sound of a particular musical instrument. The word comes from lat. "surdus" (deaf).

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Pompadours.

Meaning:

A complete type of provincial administrator-tyrant, provincial king, stupefied by power and impunity.

Origin:

From the satirical essays "Pompadours and Pompadourses" (1863-1874) by the writer Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889). The expression is also found in his other works - "The History of a City", "Modern Idyll", etc. The word "pompadour" for the writer means a tyrant-administrator who enjoys the patronage of the highest authority and therefore revels in his impunity, and "pompadour" - his wife or favorite. The expressiveness of this word is explained by the fact that it evokes several associations in the mind of the reader - with the capricious mistress of Louis XV, the Marquise de Pompadour, the pomposity of the royal court and with the whims of domestic merchants-tyrants. In the 7th chapter of the essays "Pompadours and Pompadourses" the writer already speaks of "pompadours squared".

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