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Suck with mother's milk

Mark Tullius Cicero

Phraseologism: Suck with mother's milk.

Meaning: From early childhood, to acquire certain qualities, ideas, to be imbued with some feelings.

Origin: From Latin: Cum lacte nutricis suxisse. Literally: "I sucked with the nurse's milk." From the work "Tusculan Conversations" by the Roman statesman, orator and writer Cicero (Mark Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC). But this expression became popular thanks to the medieval theologian Aurelius Augustine, or Blessed Augustine (354-430), who in the 3rd book of his autobiographical work "Confession" (c. 400, Russian translation 1914) repeated this expression of Cicero, but in somewhat modified form: "I sucked with mother's milk." It was in this form that the expression entered the world culture.

Random phraseology:

Fight and seek, find and never give up.

Meaning:

About fidelity to one's purpose and principles.

Origin:

From English: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield". The original source is the poem "Ulysses" by the English poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892). These lines were carved on a tombstone that was placed (January 1913) in Antarctica on top of "Observer Hill" in memory of the English polar explorer Robert Scott (1868-1912). In an effort to reach the South Pole first, he nevertheless came to him second, three days after the Norwegian pioneer Roald Amundsen had been there. Robert Scott died on the way back. In Russian, these words became popular after the publication of the novel "Two Captains" by Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989). The protagonist of the novel, Sanya Grigoriev, who dreams of polar campaigns, makes these words the motto of his whole life (vols. 1, 14).

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