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School of Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Phraseologism: School of slander.

Meaning: About a bunch of gossips, spiteful critics, etc.

Origin: From English: The School for Scandal. Russian translation of the title of a comedy (1780) by the English playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816).

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Live Kurilka.

Meaning:

An exclamation at the mention of the ongoing activity of someone, his existence, despite difficult conditions.

Origin:

There was an old Russian game: a lit splinter was passed from hand to hand, singing: "Alive, alive Smoking room, alive, alive, not dead!" The one whose splinter went out, began to smoke, smoke, lost. Gradually, the words "Kurilka is alive" began to be applied to various figures and to various phenomena that, logically, should have disappeared long ago, but, in spite of everything, continued to exist.

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