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A pair of every creature

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Phraseologism: Every creature in a pair.

Meaning: About a mixed, heterogeneous collection of things or people (ironic).

Origin: From the Bible. The Old Testament tells about the Flood (Genesis 7:2-4), in which only the righteous Noah and his family were saved, since God informed him of the impending disaster and gave him the idea to build an ark (ship). And God also gave Noah an order: to save life on earth, to take on board the ark seven pairs of "clean" animals and two pairs of "unclean" animals: two each, a male and a female, and also of the birds of the air, seven each, a male and a female, to keep a seed for the whole earth, for after seven days I will rain on the earth forty days and forty nights.”

Random phraseology:

Catch up and overtake.

Meaning:

Quoted as a call to win a competition (usually economic) with someone. It is used both literally and ironically.

Origin:

The primary source is the article "The Threatening Catastrophe and How to Fight It" (September, 1917) by V. I. Lenin (1870-1924): "The revolution did what in a few months Russia caught up with the advanced countries in its political system. But this is not enough. War is inexorable, it poses the question with merciless sharpness: either perish or catch up with the advanced countries and overtake them also economically. As the main slogan of economic construction in the USSR, these words were voiced at the XV Party Conference of the CPSU (b) in 1928. In the poem "The Americans Are Surprised" (1929), V. V. Mayakovsky wrote: "Your swift-footed famous America // We will catch up and overtake ". The same slogan - "to catch up and overtake America!" was re-introduced in the 1960s. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU N. S. Khrushchev.

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