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From ship to ball

Pushkin A.S.

Phraseologism: From the ship to the ball.

Meaning: About an unexpected, abrupt change in situations, circumstances.

Origin: From the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" (1823-1831) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837) (ch. 8, stanza 13): and got, // Like Chatsky, from the ship to the ball.

Random phraseology:

Dreams, dreams, where is your sweetness?

Meaning:

About unfulfilled hopes and dreams that could not withstand the collision with real life.

Origin:

From the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" (1823-1831) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837), ch. 6, stanza 44. In this case, the poet repeated the opening line of his early poem "Awakening" (1816), which he wrote when he was almost the same age as Lensky.

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