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Upper Volta with ballistic missiles

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt

Phraseologism: Upper Volta with ballistic missiles.

Meaning: Soviet Union and Russia after its collapse.

Origin: Wrongly attributed to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Review of the Federal Chancellor (1974-1982) of the Federal Republic of Germany (Germany) Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015) about the Soviet Union (early 1980s). The image has become popular in Russian journalism and is also applied to post-reform Russia in the 1990s.

Random phraseology:

Lie like a gray gelding.

Meaning:

Brazenly, shamelessly lie (simple disapproval).

Origin:

There are several versions of the origin of phraseology. One of them connects the emergence of turnover with the fact that in historical monuments the combinations of horse siv, gelding siv are very typical, the adjective gray "light gray, gray" shows the old age of the animal. And the verb to lie in the past had a slightly different meaning - "talk nonsense, idle talk, chatter." Thus, the gray gelding here is a stallion that has turned gray from long work, and figuratively - a man who is already talking from old age and is irritating nonsense. Also, the expression is explained by the usual boasting of old people with their own strength, as if still preserved, like among young people. According to another version, the turnover is associated with the attitude towards a gray horse as a stupid creature (cf .: nonsense of a gray mare). Russian peasants avoided, for example, laying the first furrow on a gray gelding, because he "lied" - he was mistaken, laying it incorrectly.

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