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Great and terrible

Frank Baum

Phraseologism: Great and terrible.

Meaning: Extraordinary, unique, amazing (iron.).

Origin: From English: Great and Terrible. From the fairy tale novel "The Wizard of the Emerald City" (1939) by the Soviet children's writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1891-1977) ("I am Goodwin, the Great and Terrible!"). Volkov's novel was written based on the book by the American writer Frank Baum "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900), in which this wizard accordingly says (11): "I am Oz, the Great and Terrible!"

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