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And Vaska listens and eats

Krylov I.A.
Krylov I.A.

Phraseologism: And Vaska listens and eats.

Meaning: About the situation when one speaks, convinces, and the other does not listen, does not consider the speaker and continues to do his (usually reprehensible) deed (iron.).

Origin: The expression is a quote from I. A. Krylov's fable "The Cat and the Cook" (1813). In the fable, the cook reproaches the cat Vaska for stealing food in the kitchen. Vaska, listening to the cook's reproaches, calmly continues to eat the stolen chicken.

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Revelation in thunder and storm.

Meaning:

About a stormy, emotional oral presentation (jokingly ironic).

Origin:

The title of a work (1907) by the scientist, poet and populist Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854-1946), in which the author made an attempt to give a rational, astronomical interpretation of the Apocalypse (the Revelation of the Apostle John the Theologian). For his participation in the Executive Committee of the Narodnaya Volya organization, he was arrested while crossing the border in 1881 and, according to the "trial of 20", was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Shlisselburg fortress. Released only in 1905, having spent 25 years in prison. He devoted the following years to poetic creativity and scientific activity, in 1932 he was elected an honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Author of many works on higher mathematics and physics.

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