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Take out the saints

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Phraseologism: Take out the saints.

Meaning: There is no strength to endure anything, unbearable, unbearable for others.

Origin: Saints are icons in ancient Russian everyday life. The essence of the saying "at least endure the saints" is the conviction that reverence for the icon should protect it from contemplating everything obscene, sinful, or from being present at indecent events. To take out the saints, or at least to pull the icon in the corner with a special curtain, as was customary among the Old Believers, such measures were taken so that the saints would not see the outrages committed by people: drunkenness, fights, domestic squabbles.

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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 In America, it was superseded by the later arose "four hundred", after Charles H. Crandall published in 1895 in "New York Daily Tribune" sensational interview with the "legislator" of New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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