The salvation of the drowning is the work of the drowning themselves. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Saving the drowning - the work of the drowning

Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov

Phraseologism: Salvation of drowning people is the work of drowning people themselves.

Meaning: Everyone must solve their problems on their own or together with their comrades in misfortune.

Origin: From the novel (ch. 34) "The Twelve Chairs" (1928) by Soviet writers Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942). The text of the slogan that was posted in the hall of the Cardboarder club in the city of Vasyuki, where Ostap Bender gave local chess lovers a session of simultaneous play on 160 boards. In the original: The work of helping the drowning is the work of the drowning themselves. The phrase is actually a parody of the famous words of Karl Marx, often quoted by the Soviet propaganda of those years: "The liberation of the workers must be the work of the workers themselves."

Random phraseology:

Eat pineapples, chew grouse, your last day is coming, bourgeois.

Meaning:

Quoted as a playfully ironic threat to someone.

Origin:

Couplet (1917) by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930), which he later included in his poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1924). The poet later wrote ("Only not memories ...") that he composed this poem even before the October Revolution of 1917 - "to the beat of some rollicking music" when he was sitting at a table in the Petrograd artistic cabaret "Comedians' Halt" . “This couplet,” the poet wrote, “became my favorite verse: the St. Petersburg newspapers of the first days of October wrote that the sailors went to the Winter Palace, singing some song: Eat pineapples ... etc.”

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