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Test ball

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Phraseologism: Trial ball.

Meaning: About any act, technique, which is an attempt to find out something (obsolete).

Origin: There are two versions of the etymology: 1) the turnover is taken from the lexicon of billiard players. Good players sometimes give their partner a trial ball, that is, they substitute the ball so that it is relatively easy to put it in the pocket, 2) the expression is a tracing paper with fr. ballon d'essai and goes back to the practice of launching test balloons before launching balloons with people.

Random phraseology:

How to drink to give.

Meaning:

Definitely, definitely.

Origin:

The expression initially made sense: as soon as a person drinks what they offer him, he will immediately die, as soon as they give him a drink, he will die right there (we are talking about poison). For example, the writer Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792-1869) in the novel "Basurman" (1838) says: "Does any of your servants heal? God forbid! sent to the next world. Yes, and the boy of the baron, the servant whom he loved like a son, only kissed the dead man's lips to say goodbye to him ... immediately breathed his last. So strong was the potion that Anton gave to the dead." The writer Pavel Melnikov-Pechersky (1818-1883) also uses this expression in the same sense: “Here, after all, the people are from oh-oh! " ("In forests"). In modern speech, the expression has lost its original gloomy meaning and is used only in the meaning - for sure, for sure, by all means, etc.

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