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Seven Fridays in a week

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Phraseologism: Seven Fridays in a week.

Meaning: About someone unreliable and unpredictable.

Origin: Just before Friday was a free day from work, and therefore - a market day. For a long time, it was also the day of fulfillment of various trade obligations. On Friday, they received money and promised to bring the ordered goods next week. Or on Friday they received the goods and promised to give money for it next Friday. Those who broke these promises were said to have "seven Fridays a week." Later, this phraseological unit began to be applied to people who often change their decisions.

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The Grapes of Wrath.

Meaning:

About ripening irritation, anger that can (not today - tomorrow) break out, pour out on those who caused them.

Origin:

From English: Grapes of Wrath. The title of the novel (1940) by the American writer John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968), who speaks in his novel about the ruin of large monopolies of farmers and about the moods that ripen among the latter: who didn't last long." The expression has a biblical source: in the New Testament, in the 14th Revelation of John the Theologian (Apocalypse), it is said about an angel who descended to earth and cut bunches of grapes, which he then threw into "the great winepress of God's wrath." And from there the blood flowed "even to the bridles of horses, for a thousand six hundred furlongs."

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