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Sleeping Beauty
Charles Perrault
Phraseologism: Sleeping Beauty.
Meaning: About people who are inattentive, dreamy, slow, not showing due interest in their work (ironic).
Origin: From French: "La belle au bois dormant". Literally: "Beauty in the sleeping forest." Russian translation of a French folk tale, edited and published (1697) by the French writer Charles Perrault (1628-1703).
Random phraseology:
Humans tend to make mistakes.
Meaning:
About indulgence to human mistakes, misconduct.
Origin:
The prototype of this expression is found in the Greek poet Theognis, who lived 500 years BC. e., he said that it is impossible to maintain close friendly relations with anyone if you are angry at any mistake of friends, "since mistakes are inevitable between mortals." In the future, this idea was repeated in different versions - by the Greek poet Euripides (480-406 BC) in the tragedy "Hippolytus" "everyone is prone to make mistakes", by Cicero ("Philippi", 12, 5) - "Every person it is natural to err, but it is not natural for anyone but a fool to persist in error. The Roman rhetorician Mark Annaeus Seneca (c. 55 BC - c. 37 AD) says: "To err is human." |
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