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Silent American

Graham Greene

Phraseologism: Quiet American.

Meaning: About an outwardly ordinary person who pretends to be a tourist, businessman, etc., but works for the secret services of his country (ironic).

Origin: The title of a novel (1955) by English writer Graham Greene (1904-1991) about a CIA agent on a special assignment in Vietnam.

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Fire and sword.

Meaning:

With merciless cruelty, destroying everything.

Origin:

From Latin: "Igni et ferro". Literal translation: "Fire and iron." The expression is based on an ancient way to heal wounds with the help of surgical intervention ("iron") and cauterization ("fire") - for disinfection. This method of treatment went down in history thanks to the legendary physician of ancient Greece, Hippocrates (c. 460-370 BC), who said: "What medicine does not heal, iron heals; what iron does not heal, fire heals" - Quae medicamenta non sanant, ferrum sanat, quae ferrum non sanat, ignis sanat. (The aphorism of Hippocrates has a continuation: "... and what fire does not cure, it should be considered incurable.") Later in Ancient Rome, this expression was rethought in relation to military affairs. So, among the Roman poets of the 1846st century. BC e. (Ovid, Propertius, etc.) the expression is used in the meaning: to fight the enemy with "fire" (by betraying enemy cities to fire) and "iron" (sword). Therefore, later the expression "by fire and sword" entered the language of European peoples. In Russian, it gained particular popularity after the publication of the novel "Fire and Sword" by the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz (1916-XNUMX), where he talks about the confrontation between the Polish gentry and the Ukrainian Cossacks in the XNUMXth century.

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