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Let's go back to our rams

French
French

Phraseologism: Let's get back to our sheep.

Meaning: Let's return to the topic of conversation. A call to the speaker not to digress from the main topic, a statement by the speaker that his digression from the topic of the conversation is over and he is returning to the point.

Origin: Tracing paper with fr. revenons a nos moutons. The expression originated in a French medieval farce in which a wealthy merchant comes to sue a shepherd for a shortage of rams belonging to the merchant, and in the process constantly tries to transfer the conversation to the shepherd's lawyer, who stole a piece of fabric from the merchant the day before by fraud. The judge tries for some time to urge the plaintiff to return to the topic of the trial, after which, confused, closes the meeting to the delight of the shepherd and the lawyer.

Random phraseology:

Only the dead don't come back.

Meaning:

A person, while he is alive, can regain what he owned before.

Origin:

The words of Bertrand Barere (1755-1841), a leader of the French Revolution, nicknamed "Anacreon (that is, the poet) of the guillotine", his speech in the Convention of May 26, 1794: "If the troops commanded by Ushar had destroyed all the English, instead of to poison our fortresses with their presence, then England would not encroach on our borders this year. Only the dead do not return. But kings and their servants are incorrigible. They must disappear if you want lasting peace, if you want freedom to flourish" . On June 16 of the same year, he repeated these words in a speech against the counter-revolutionaries: "No, no, let the enemies die! I already said once that only the dead do not return." Barer's expression became popular thanks to Napoleon I. In 1816, already in exile on the island of St. Helena, he said about his overly strict, in his opinion, security, organized by the British: the only way to get rid of the fear that he will run away is - is to destroy it, for "only the dead do not return."

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