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Underground truth
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Phraseologism: The underhand truth.
Meaning: The true essence of something.
Origin: One of the types of torture in Ancient Russia was that the interrogated person was driven under the nails with needles, nails or wooden wedges in order to force him to tell the whole truth. The expression "to find out all the ins and outs" is also connected with this.
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Revelation in thunder and storm.
Meaning:
About a stormy, emotional oral presentation (jokingly ironic).
Origin:
The title of a work (1907) by the scientist, poet and populist Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854-1946), in which the author made an attempt to give a rational, astronomical interpretation of the Apocalypse (the Revelation of the Apostle John the Theologian). For his participation in the Executive Committee of the Narodnaya Volya organization, he was arrested while crossing the border in 1881 and, according to the "trial of 20", was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Shlisselburg fortress. Released only in 1905, having spent 25 years in prison. He devoted the following years to poetic creativity and scientific activity, in 1932 he was elected an honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Author of many works on higher mathematics and physics. |
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