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The smile of the augurs
Mark Tullius Cicero
Phraseologism: The smile of the augurs.
Meaning: The exchange of smiles of people who understand each other well, the smile of deceivers.
Origin: Augurs in ancient Rome were called priests who interpreted the will of the gods by the flight and cry of birds. Orator, writer and politician Mark Tullius Cicero, in his book On Divination, says that, deceiving those who believed in their predictions, the augurs could hardly restrain themselves from laughing when they met each other.
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Top ten thousand.
Meaning:
financial aristocracy.
Origin:
The expression belongs to the American journalist Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867). In No. 31 of the New York Evening Mirror, November 11, 1844, in the article "Necessity for a promenade drive," he wrote: "At present there is no distinction between the top ten thousand in the city." In the 40s. 1888th century the upper stratum of American society did indeed amount to about ten thousand people. This expression, which became winged, in England received the laconic form "the upper ten". In America, it was superseded by the later arose "four hundred", after Charles H. Crandall published in 1895 in "New York Daily Tribune" sensational interview with the "legislator" of New York secular society, lawyer Mac Alistair (d. XNUMX), nicknamed "the drawing room autocrat", he claimed that there were only about four hundred people in New York society Worte). |
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