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The situation is worse than the governor's

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Phraseologism: The situation is worse than the governor's.

Meaning: About an extremely difficult, unpleasant situation (jokingly).

Origin: There are several versions of the origin of the turnover: 1) the expression is taken from horse-breeding slang. The governor there was called a male probe, who was allowed to the mare to annoy her before mating with a thoroughbred sire. Phraseologism arose as a result of a punning rethinking by homonymous similarity, 2) the expression goes back to the decree of Paul I on the recovery of losses in the event of a mail robbery from the governor of this province, issued by him in 1800 in connection with a major mail robbery in the Kostroma province. The decree caused a real stir among the governors, 3. According to the author of the book "The Winged Word" (1930) S. G. Zaimonsky, this "image was inspired by the position of Don Quixote's squire. Sancho Panza, during his ill-fated governorship. The position of Russian governors is hardly was so bleak as to suggest such an aphorism."

Random phraseology:

When we were young and carried beautiful nonsense.

Meaning:

About the days of youth (jokingly-iron.).

Origin:

From the poem "When we were young ..." (1968) by the poetess Yunna Petrovna Moritz (b. 1937). The lines gained popularity thanks to the song "When We Were Young" (1976), written by Sergei Nikitin. The text of his song was composed of two poems by Yunna Moritz: "It's good to be young!" (1975) and "When we were young..." (1968).

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