Of course, I promised, but there is a limit to everything. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Of course, I promised, but there is a limit to everything.

Pushkin A.S.

Phraseologism: Of course, I promised, but there is a limit to everything.

Meaning: About the behavior of a person who hesitates or does not want to fulfill the promise (jokingly ironic).

Origin: From "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" (1834) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837). The words of Tsar Dodon, who promised "the wise man and the astrologer" whatever he asks, if he gets for him for the golden cockerel: "Your first will // I will fulfill as mine." When the sage got a golden cockerel for King Dodon, he asked for him the Shamakhan queen, with whom the king himself fell in love. Which was followed by this answer.

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Cunctator.

Meaning:

A person who does something slowly, waiting, thinking, trying on his task, etc.

Origin:

From Latin: Cunctator - Slower. The nickname (from the verb cunctare - to delay) of the Roman commander Fabius Maximus (III century BC), who, in the war with the Carthaginian commander Hannibal, used the tactics of evading decisive battles: without entering into major battles, he continuously disturbed and harassed the enemy, for which he received this nickname. His tactics (kunktatorstvo) fully justified themselves. In Russia, this was the name given to Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov, who acted cautiously in the war of 1812, waiting until the forces of the two armies were partially equal, when Napoleon was forced to start a retreat, etc.

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