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Sewing with wooden needles

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Phraseologism: Sew with wooden needles.

Meaning: Robbery (obsolete irony).

Origin: By a wooden needle here is meant a robber's club. The expression was used in the language of the last century: "There was a fair at which the fishing people - tailors who sew with wooden needles on high roads, emptied an entire shop, breaking or digging up a whole farce" (V. Dal, "Underground. Pictures of Russian life").

Random phraseology:

Combine business with pleasure.

Meaning:

Used literally.

Origin:

From Latin: "Utile cum dulci". Literally: "Useful pleasant." From the work "The Art of Poetry" (verse 343) by the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus, 65-8 BC), who speaks of the ideal poet: "The one who combines pleasant with useful is worthy of all approval." Horace probably borrowed this idea from the Roman historian Polybius, who in his History wrote that one can "at the same time derive benefit and pleasure from history."

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