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Peace pipe

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Phraseologism: Peace pipe.

Meaning: Symbol of peace and harmony.

Origin: The Indians of North America had a custom, when making peace, to smoke one common pipe with the enemy as a sign of reconciliation - the "peace pipe". So, in the "Song of Hiawatha" by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), "The Mighty Master of Life, Gitchie Manito," calling the leaders of the warring Indian tribes, tells them (translated by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, 1896): "Wash away the colors of battle, // Wash away the bloodstains from your fingers, // Bury bows in the ground, // Make pipes of stone, // Harvest reeds for them, // Decorate them brightly with feathers, // Light the Pipe of Peace // And henceforth live like brothers!" In Russia, the expression became popular thanks to the novels "Pathfinder", "Prairie", "The Last of the Mohicans" by the American writer James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). "Smoke the pipe of peace" - make peace, reconcile.

Random phraseology:

We are Kalutsky, it will not reach us.

Meaning:

We live far from the front (in Kaluga, Tambov, etc. provinces), the enemy (war) will not reach us, therefore, this war does not concern us.

Origin:

A phrase popular in Russia at the beginning of the 1th century as an analogue of the well-known European expression, the patriotism of the bell tower. The phrase is a symbol of "parochial patriotism", an undeveloped civic feeling (iron.). General A. I. Denikin about the Russian army during the First World War ("Essays on Russian Troubles", vol. I, ch. XNUMX): "The armed people", which was, in essence, the army, inspired by victory, lost heart in defeat, poorly understood the need to cross the Carpathians. A little more - the struggle in Styr and Pripyat, but still comforted himself with the hope: "We are Tambov, the German will not reach us ..." I have to repeat this rather hackneyed phrase, because it contains the deep psychology of a Russian person.

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