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Be ready! Always ready!

Robert Baden-Powell

Phraseologism: Be ready! Always ready!

Meaning: A call to carry out an assignment and, accordingly, an expression of readiness to do this (jokingly ironic).

Origin: From English: Be Prepared! The motto of the scouts, the author of which was the founder of the scouting movement, the English colonel Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941), who outlined the foundations of this movement in his book Scouting for Boys (1908). Scouting (from the English scout - scout) - a system of out-of-school education of boys and girls (boy scouts and girl scouts) from 7 years to 21 years. Scouts studied nature, the basics of crafts and tourism, received primary military knowledge. In Russia, scout detachments were created in 1909, and soon (1914) the Russian Scout society was founded, the motto of which was Baden-Powell's phrase "Be ready!" and a review to it: "Always ready!" After the Bolsheviks came to power, scout detachments were banned, and instead of them, the All-Union Pioneer Organization was subsequently created, which inherited some attributes of Russian scouts, including their motto with appropriate refinement. In full, the pioneer motto sounded like this: "Be ready to fight for the cause of the Communist Party!" And the review: "Always ready!" These words were accompanied by solemn pioneering events - the presentation of distinctions, reports, rulers, etc. The motto of Colonel Baden-Powell apparently had a Latin source - "Semper paratus" ("Always ready").

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Karas is an idealist.

Meaning:

About a person who has become a victim of his own, his own illusions (jokingly-iron.).

Origin:

The name of a satirical tale (1884) by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889), who thus decided to describe the type of idealist public figure. An idealist carp believes in goodness, love, universal happiness and the need for civic feeling. I am sure that the pike will not eat it either - you just need to lay out the whole "truth" to it. And, having met once with a pike, he begins to convince her that all fish should swim freely, live in harmony, live by their own labor, including the pike. And, hoping to finally reason with her, the crucian asks her a question: "Do you know what virtue is?" The pike "gave her mouth open in surprise. She mechanically drew water and, not wanting to swallow the crucian at all, swallowed it." In the collection of satirical essays Well-intentioned Speeches (1872-1876), Saltykov-Shchedrin wrote: "Woe to the crucian carp who doze in ignorance that their providential purpose is to serve as food for pikes, filling the pool of vital foundations."

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