The Prussian teacher won the battle of Sadovaya. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Prussian teacher won the battle of Sadovaya

Oscar Peschel

Phraseologism: The Prussian teacher won the battle of Sadovaya.

Meaning: It is used as a reminder of the role of a school teacher in shaping a nation, its intellectual potential, morality, spirit, etc.

Origin: Usually erroneously attributed to the "Iron Chancellor" of Germany, Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck. The author of the expression is Oscar Peschel (1826-1875), a professor of geography from Leipzig, and in the original his phrase sounds different. So, in July 1866, he wrote in the newspaper Zagranitsa edited by him: "... Public education plays a decisive role in the war ... when the Prussians beat the Austrians, it was the victory of the Prussian teacher over the Austrian school teacher." In Russia, after the Franco-Prussian war, the expression became associated precisely with this campaign, and therefore such a variant of Oscar Peschel's phrase became popular in Russian: "France was defeated by the Prussian teacher."

Random phraseology:

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."

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