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I began to live, not breathe!

Pushkin A.S.

Phraseologism: I began to live, not breathe!

Meaning: About the pleasant impressions associated with the trip, often abroad.

Origin: From the poem "NN's Journey to Paris and London, written three days before the trip" by Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev (1760-1837). The initials "NN" here designate A.S. Pushkin's uncle, the poet Vasily Lvovich Pushkin (1766-1830), who undertook this journey to Europe and subsequently spoke a lot about him. The poems of I.I. Dmitriev are a poetic, and not without mild irony, retelling of these stories by Vasily Lvovich: "Friends! sisters! I'm in Paris! // I began to live, not breathe! // You sit closer to each other / / My little journal to read: // I was at the Lyceum, at the Pantheon, // At Bonaparte's bow, // I stood close to him, // Not believing my happiness..."

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Country husband.

Meaning:

A husband who, living in the city, almost daily travels out of town to the country where his family rests. At the same time, he carries provisions there, fulfills the orders of summer residents, runs around shops, etc., in a word, he receives a lot of trouble and torment from such a "dacha life" (joking, ironic).

Origin:

As the memoirist A.R. Kugel reports in his "Literary Memoirs" (Byloe. 1923. No. 21), the expression belongs to the novelist Ivan Shcheglov (pseudonym of Ivan Leontievich Leontiev, 1856-1911), who called this collection of his stories (1888). Later, a similar expression is found in the stories of A.P. Chekhov, thanks to whom it became widely known.

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