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Brides Fair

Pushkin A.S.

Phraseologism: Bridal Fair.

Meaning: About a large gathering of unmarried ladies.

Origin: From the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" (1823-1831) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837), who writes about Moscow in this way (ch. 7, stanza 26). In the original: "Brides' Fair": "Well, mother? What happened? // To Moscow, to the brides' fair. // There, I hear, there are many empty places."

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Attic salt.

Meaning:

Refined wit, elegant joke.

Origin:

The expression goes back to Mark Tullius Cicero. Popularizing Greek culture in Rome, Cicero gave a significant place in his writings to the theory of oratory, carefully developed by the Greeks. He especially singled out the inhabitants of Attica, famous for their eloquence. In 61 BC. e. Cicero, thanking for the letters of his correspondent, the writer Titus Pomponius Atticus, wrote: "All of them were not only sprinkled with salt of wit, as the students of orators say, but also remarkable in the manifestations of your friendship." Letters of Mark Tullius Cicero to Attica, relatives, brother Quintus, M. Brutus, I, years 69-51, translation and comments by V. O. Gorenstein, M.-L. 1949, p. 51.) In 55 BC. e. Cicero wrote the essay "On the Orator", in the form of a literary conversation of several persons, from which he excluded himself. In the 54th chapter of Book II of this essay, the question of the place of a joke in oratory, of the means to achieve a comic effect in speech, is considered. Julius Caesar, an imaginary participant in the conversation, is left, as a recognized master of jokes, to express his opinion. Paying tribute to the gift of the Greeks in this area, Caesar, expressing the views of Cicero, assigns the first place to the inhabitants of Attica, who are fluent in a sharp word, adding that "some jokers give an interpretation that is not devoid of wit to the following place of Ennius:" coal than to keep a good word to yourself" [an untranslatable pun: the poet Ennius "bona dicta" has wise, instructive words, here "bona dicta" - witticisms]. Of course, a good word in their sense is a word that has salt " . It remains to add that in Attica, as in other parts of Greece that had access to the sea, salt was not mined from salt mines, but by evaporation in the sun or by boiling sea water, which is why Attic salt was especially fine "(Pliny, Natural History, 31, 7, 39).

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