I'm tired of basking in someone else's fire. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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I'm tired of basking in someone else's fire

Imre Kalman

Phraseologism: I'm tired of basking in someone else's fire.

Meaning: The phrase is a symbol of loneliness, worldly disorder.

Origin: From the exit aria of Mister X from the operetta "Princess of the Circus" (1930). Composer Imre Kalman (1882-1953), libretto by Julius Brammer and Arnold Grunwald.

Random phraseology:

When I was gullible and young.

Meaning:

About youth, when a person is still gullible, naive, does not know resentment and disappointment (self-iron.).

Origin:

From the poem "Black Shawl" (1820) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837). The line became popular thanks to the famous romance (1823), which was written to these verses by the Russian composer A. N. Verstovsky.

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