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wise gudgeon
Saltykov-Shchedrin M.E.
Phraseologism: Wise minnow.
Meaning: A conformist person, a socially or politically passive, cowardly person who elevates his conformism to the rank of philosophy (ironic).
Origin: The character of the satirical tale of the same name "for children of a fair age" (1883) by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889) is a minnow who "lived - trembled and died - trembled." All minnow wisdom consisted in vegetating in his dark hole, trembling for his life, and "not sticking out" - in every sense of the expression. So the satirist portrayed the Russian liberal intelligentsia, whose social position he likened to the behavior of a minnow, concerned only with survival.
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The door is open to the invited and the uninvited.
Meaning:
About the so-called open house, where you can come at any time without an invitation, about the owner who accepts everyone indiscriminately, about the house-"passage yard", where there are dubious personalities, etc. (disapproved).
Origin:
From the comedy "Woe from Wit" (1824) by A. S. Griboyedov (1795-1829), the words of Famusov (act. 2, yavl. 5): "The door is unlocked for those who are called and those who are not, // Especially from foreign ones." |
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