What's good for General Motors is good for America. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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What's good for GM is good for America

Charles Erwin Wilson

Phraseologism: What's good for General Motors is good for America.

Meaning: The benefit received by a citizen or a company benefits the country.

Origin: Words from the President of the American General Motors Corporation, Charles Wilson (1890-1961). On January 15, 1953, the Senate Military Affairs Committee discussed his candidacy for the post of Secretary of Defense. When asked whose interests would be more important for the future minister - the country or his company, Wilson replied: “I’m used to thinking that what’s good for our country is good for General Motors, and vice versa. It’s the same thing.” (according to the New York Times, 1953, January 23).

Random phraseology:

I can’t be silent.

Meaning:

It is jokingly-ironically quoted as a prelude to a certain statement, speech.

Origin:

Article title (1908) by L. I. Tolstoy (1828-1910). In it, he protested against the death penalty, which became massive when P. A. Stolypin became the Minister of the Interior and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Russia. First, this article appeared in the foreign (English) press, then in the newspaper Russkiye Vedomosti (1908).

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