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Phraseologism: Fig leaf.

Meaning: A plausible cover for unseemly deeds, an unenviable state of affairs, etc. (ironic, disapproved).

Origin: The expression goes back to the Old Testament myth about Adam and Eve, who, after the fall, knew shame and girded themselves with the leaves of a fig tree (fig tree): (Genesis 3:7). From the XNUMXth to the end of the XNUMXth century, European artists and sculptors had to cover the most revealing parts of the human body with a fig leaf in their works. This convention was a concession to the Christian church, which considered the depiction of naked flesh to be sinful and obscene.

Random phraseology:

From a beautiful distance.

Meaning:

It is cited as a playfully ironic designation of a place where a person is free from ordinary worries, difficulties, problems.

Origin:

From the poem "Dead Souls" (1842) by N.V. Gogol (1809-1852) (vol. I, 11): "Rus! Rus! I see you, from my wonderful, beautiful far away, I see you." (Almost the entire first volume of Dead Souls was written by the author abroad.)

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