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Lost generation

Gertrude Stein

Phraseologism: Lost generation.

Meaning: About young people lost for society and for themselves - they cannot find themselves in new conditions of life, fulfill themselves, etc.

Origin: Mistakenly attributed to American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). In fact, the author of this expression is the American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). E. Hemingway only used it as an epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises (1926). The first editions of the novel opened with this phrase, indicating its author: "You are all a lost generation" Gertrude Stein (in conversation). How this expression was born, Hemingway tells in another of his books - "A holiday that is always with you." He writes that one day a young mechanic who had been at the front repaired Gertrude Stein's old Ford very unsuccessfully. She was very unhappy: “You are all a lost generation! That’s what you are. You are all like that!” said Miss Stein. “All the young people who have been in the war. You are a lost generation. Yes, yes,” she insisted, “you have no respect for anything. You all get drunk ...” The expression became in the 20s. very popular in the West as a characteristic of young people who went through the First World War, but found their place in civilian life with great difficulty.

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Goofballs.

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About people who are stupid, careless, negligent in any business.

Origin:

The word was used in folk speech and was taken by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin from the "Proverbs of the Russian people" by V.I. Dahl. It became widespread as a result of its use by the great satirist in the "History of a City" (1869-1870). In the chapter “On the Root of the Origin of the Foolovites” (inhabitants of the city of Glupov), Saltykov writes: “There was ... in ancient times a people called bunglers ... These people were called bunglers because they had the habit of “pulling” their heads on everything, no matter what met on the way. If a wall comes across - they thrash against the wall, they start praying to God - they thrash against the floor ... "

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