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sardonic laughter

Homer

Phraseologism: Sardonic laughter.

Meaning: Vicious, bilious, caustic, caustic laughter.

Origin: The origin of this expression, found in Homer ("Odyssey", 20, 302, "Iliad", 7, 212), commentators in ancient times associated with the island of Sardinia, explaining that it came from a poisonous plant growing there (Sardonia herba), people , who ate it, died, and their faces were distorted by convulsions, similar to laughter. (I. E. Timoshenko, Literary sources and prototypes of three hundred Russian proverbs and sayings, Kyiv, 1897, p. 13-15).

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