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The worse the better

Dostoevsky F.M.

Phraseologism: The worse, the better.

Meaning: Expecting worsening of events or facilitating this with the aim of deriving probable personal benefit or obtaining moral satisfaction.

Origin: The expression became popular in its well-known, politicized sense thanks to F.M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881), who used this expression in the novel (part 3, ch. 9) "The Humiliated and Insulted" (1861). He would later repeat it in his Diary of a Writer (January, 1881). The same turnover is also found in a letter from A.S. Pushkin to P.A. Vyazemsky (dated June 24-25, 1824): “I wanted to talk with you about changing the ministry. What do you think about this? I am both glad and not "For a long time, the motto of every Russian has been the worse, the better. The Russian opposition, which, thanks to the Russian God, was made up of our writers, whatever it was, was already getting into some kind of impatience, which I secretly teased, expecting something."

Random phraseology:

Birthright.

Meaning:

Currently, the expression is used in the meaning of the pre-emptive right of the person who did, created something first.

Origin:

From the Bible. As it is said in the Old Testament (Genesis, 25:31-34), hungry Esau, the eldest of the twin sons of the patriarch Isaac, sold his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for lentil soup, that is, special rights (in particular, the right to inherit parental property) , which, according to ancient custom, was received by the first-born boy in the family. Hence the two derivative expressions - "sell the birthright" (sell, for example, your copyright, the right to pre-emptive ownership of something) and "sell for lentil stew" (give up something important for an insignificant benefit, actually give it away, squander , let it go to the wind).

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