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Siamese twins

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Phraseologism: Siamese twins.

Meaning: 1. About the highest degree of similarity. 2. About the spiritual closeness, friendship, attachment to each other of two people (jokingly-iron.).

Origin: Twins from Siam (now Thailand) Chang (translated from Thai as "Left") and Eng ("Right") Bachkeru (1811-1874) fused together in the chest area. In 1829 they moved to the United States, where they married two sisters from North Carolina, Sarah and Adelaide Yates. From this marriage, Sarah had 10 children, Adelaide had 12. Chang and Eng died almost simultaneously, three hours apart. Some entrepreneurs in the 40s. 1840th century they were taken around Europe as a paid attraction. In the 1843s the expression became a household name in this sense: the French press in XNUMX called two editors, the Escudier brothers, "Siamese twins".

Random phraseology:

Professor of sour cabbage soup.

Meaning:

About a self-confident fool, an upstart (ironic).

Origin:

There are two versions of the origin of the phraseological unit: 1) sour cabbage soup - a variety of fizzy kvass, the preparation of which did not present any particular difficulties, 2) we are talking about peasant cabbage soup (soup).

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