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Brain drain, brain drain

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Phraseologism: Brain drain, brain drain.

Meaning: Emigration from the country of valuable specialists, gifted, promising scientists.

Origin: From English: "Brain drain". The expression was born in Europe after World War II, when many scientific and technical workers, especially the British, began to move permanently to the United States, practically untouched by the war, where working conditions, pay and quality of life in general were incomparably better. The same phenomenon has become characteristic of modern Russia.

Random phraseology:

A wonderful new world.

Meaning:

The expression is usually used ironically - in relation to an attempt to translate into reality a certain social utopia with features of totalitarianism: about a certain social model that is imposed on everyone as the only possible way of life. Equally common in the same sense is another translation of the phrase - "brave new world".

Origin:

The primary source is the romantic drama The Tempest (161.2) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Miranda's response (act 5, scene 1): O brave new world!.. "How beautiful is this new world. // In which there are such people!" The expression became catchphrase after the English writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) made it the title of his dystopian novel ("Brave New World", 1932), which is a satire on both totalitarianism and the standardized way of life "society consumption".

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