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Sodom and Gomorrah

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Phraseologism: Sodom and Gomorrah.

Meaning: Dishonesty, sinfulness, crime.

Origin: From the Bible. According to the Old Testament, the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in Palestine were known for their sins, debauchery, and the dishonorable attitude of the townspeople towards strangers when they asked them for lodging for the night. The patience of the god Yahweh ran out, and he decided to punish these cities and sent angels to them to fulfill his will. Under the guise of simple travelers, the angels came to the city. One of the inhabitants of Sodom named Lot showed true hospitality and mercy, invited them into the house and fed them. Other Sodomites laid siege to Lot's house with the demand: "Bring them out to us, we will know them" (Genesis 19:5). Having been refused, they became embittered: “Now we will deal worse with you than with them” (Genesis, 19:9). Lot was saved by angels who blinded the attackers. Then the punishment befell the cities: "And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord from heaven, and overthrew these cities, and all this region, and all the inhabitants of these cities, and the growth of the earth" (Genesis, 19:24- 25). Hence the expression "sodomy sin", meaning an unnatural sexual relationship.

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Green noise is coming and going.

Meaning:

The image of spring, the first spring greenery

Origin:

From the poem “Green Noise” (1863) by N. A. Nekrasov (1821-1877): “Green noise is coming, // Green noise, spring noise! alder, // Raise flower dust, // Like a cloud: everything is green, // Both air and water." The poet himself made a note to this expression: "So the people call the awakening of nature in the spring." Nekrasov borrowed this image from the article "Days and Months of the Ukrainian Peasant", written by a botanist and ethnographer, Professor M.A. Maksimovich (1804-1873) and published in 1856 in the journal "Russian conversation" (No. 1, 3). The author writes that once he happened to hear how Ukrainian girls sang about "green noise", and explains how such an expression could have been born: "So in this green noise of the girls the Dnieper responded, retracting into the greenery of its meadows and islands, rustling in the spring flood and then giving complete freedom to fishing. One spring morning, I saw here that the waters of the Dnieper, and its sandy White Spit behind Shumilovka, and the very air above them - everything was green. e. the riding wind, running into the coastal alder bushes, which were then in bloom, he raised whole clouds of greenish flower dust from them and fluttered it throughout the midday sky "(I. S. Abramov. The origin of Nekrasov's poem "Green Noise" // Links: Sat M., L., 1935. Issue V).

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