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Take it at face value

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Phraseologism: Take it at face value.

Meaning: To take something seriously; to take something as the truth.

Origin: In the Middle Ages in the West, there were many counterfeit and low-grade coins in circulation that did not correspond to the declared value. A clean coin is a coin with a strictly defined content of precious metals, without low-value impurities.

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Wise Oedipus, let me!

Meaning:

Serves to express irony in the face of a strange, confusing, ridiculous situation.

Origin:

Primary source - quatrain (1829) A.S. Pushkin (1799-1837) written on the occasion of the publication of "Poems of Baron Delvig". Pushkin in it so, allegorically, described his lyceum friend: "Who on the snows raised Feokritov's tender roses? // In the Iron Age, tell me, who guessed the golden one? // Who is a young Slav, a Greek in spirit, a German by birth? // Here is my riddle : cunning Oedipus, let me!" Oedipus is the legendary Greek hero, the wise and insightful ruler of the city of Thebes, the only one who was able to solve the riddle of the Sphinx.

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