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Galician rooster

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Phraseologism: Galician rooster.

Meaning: Frenchman.

Origin: The ancient Romans called the Gauls the Celts who inhabited Gaul - the territory of modern France, Belgium and Northern Italy. The Latin word "gallus" means not only "gall", but also "rooster". The French scientist Adolf Blok explained that the Romans gave this name to the Celts because they were all red-haired and their fiery red crests resembled cockscombs. During the bourgeois French revolution of the XVIII century. A competition was announced for drawing a new coin. "After Augustin Dupre proposed to mint the genius of France, writing on the altar," the report of the jury of the 1791 competition says, "the members of the committee advised to add a rooster on one side of the altar - the emblem of vigilance." Dupre's design, with a rooster added to it, was used to mint twenty-franc coins. The rooster depicted on the coins, the French, who considered the Gauls to be their ancestors, interpreted it as the "Gallic rooster" and began to consider it their national emblem. The Gallic rooster was expelled by the empire of Napoleon I, but it was restored in 1830, replacing the "Bourbon lilies". Under Louis Philippe, the image of the Gallic rooster began to be used on banners and hilts of edged weapons. Napoleon III (emperor since 1852) again abolished the Gallic rooster, but it was again restored by the Third Republic, depicting him since 1871 on twenty hundred-franc coins. In 1899, the President of the French Republic issued a decree to mint the image of the Gallic rooster on ten- and twenty-franc coins. The French numismatist Ducroc argued that the Gallic rooster is incorrectly considered a national emoleme, proving this by the fact that in the collection of Gallic coins stored in the Paris National Library, out of 10 coins, only fourteen depict a rooster, while playing on the double meaning of the word "Gallus", as Ducroc explained, arose in the Renaissance and goes back to the Poem of the Rooster (413) by Passavant. Nevertheless, the expression "Gallic rooster" entered the literary speech as an allegory of France.

Random phraseology:

To spread thought along the tree.

Meaning:

In giving in unnecessary details, digressing from the main idea, touching on different, side topics, like the branches of a tree, topics, etc. (jokingly ironic).

Origin:

An incorrectly translated line from the monument of ancient Russian literature "The Tale of Igor's Campaign", which nevertheless lives its own independent life in modern Russian. In the "Word" it is said: "Boyan prophetic, if someone wanted to compose a song, spread his mind over a tree, like a gray wolf on the ground, a blue-gray eagle under the clouds." "Mys" in translation from the Old Slavonic "squirrel". Accordingly, the author says that Boyan, composing a song, embraced the whole world with his mind's eye - he ran like a squirrel on a tree, like a gray wolf - on the ground, flew like an eagle under the clouds. It is noteworthy that, for example, in the Pskov province, even in the XNUMXth century. the squirrel was called that way - "mouse".

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