In our business, the most important thing is to wash off on time. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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In our business, the most important thing is to escape in time

Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov

Phraseologism: In our business, the most important thing is to wash off on time.

Meaning: Used as a commentary on an apparently unsuccessful undertaking that needs to be completed as soon as possible (jokingly).

Origin: The original source is one of the credits for the Soviet film of the silent film era "The Feast of St. Jorgen" (1930). The authors of the titles are Soviet writers Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (1903-1942), authors of the novels The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf. In the original: "The main thing in the profession of a thief, as in the profession of a saint, of course, is to hit the road in time."

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Two souls live in my chest.

Meaning:

About the conflicting feelings that overwhelm a person.

Origin:

From German: Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust. From the poem "Faust" (part 1, scene 2 "At the city gates") by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832). Faust's words. In Russian literature, the phrase exists in two equally popular translations. Translation by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kholodkovsky (1858-1921): "Ah, two souls live in my sick chest, // Alien to each other, - and long for separation! // Of them, the earth is dear to one - // And here she likes it, in this world , // The other one is the celestial fields, // Where the shadows of the ancestors are there, in the ether". Translation of the poet of the Pushkin era Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov (1805-1827): "But two souls live in my chest, / Always at enmity with each other."

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