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Babylon

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Phraseologism: Babylon.

Meaning: Big city full of temptations.

Origin: In several places of the Bible, Babylon, "the great city" is mentioned, which "made all peoples drunk with the wine of fornication" (Jeremiah, 51, 6, Apocalypse, 14, 8, etc.). In biblical times, Babylon is one of the richest and largest cities on earth, built, according to legend, by the descendants of Noah, the capital of the Babylonian kingdom, located in Mesopotamia, in the basin of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern Iraq). Subsequently, it was destroyed by the Persians who captured it under the command of Darius. In the eyes of the compilers of biblical texts, Babylon, this "great city", which "drank all peoples with the wine of its wrathful fornication," symbolized the focus of the vices of the contemporary world (Jeremiah, 51:6, Apocalypse, 14:8, etc.). The gospel writers often referred to imperial Rome as "Babylon". In modern times, the expression "Babylon on the Seine" (about Paris) was born.

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Meaning:

An ignorant careerist martinet who dreams of instilling barracks morals in the entire public life of Russia.

Origin:

Colonel Skalozub is a character in the comedy "Woe from Wit" (1824) by A. S. Griboyedov (1795-1829). Russian analogue of the famous French expression "Bourbons". As a common noun, it was first used by A. I. Herzen ("The Past and Thoughts", ch. 20).

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