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Homo Sovieticus
the USSR
Phraseologism: Homo Sovieticus.
Meaning: It is used as an ironic synonym for the Soviet person.
Origin: The expression became popular thanks to the philosopher and publicist Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev (b. 1922), who called his book (1982), devoted to the analysis of the worldview of the Soviet person, in this way. The expression is a neologism composed of the Latin word homo (man) and the Latinized epithet "Soviet".
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One swallow does not make spring.
Meaning:
About false or insufficient signs of something.
Origin:
From the fable of the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop (VI century BC) about a young man who squandered all his father's inheritance. Of it, he kept only a cloak, in which he wrapped himself in winter. And when he saw the first swallow that arrived, he decided that now he did not need it either, since spring had come. But the frosts hit, the swallow died, and it became clear that the young man was cruelly mistaken in hastening to part with a warm cloak. On the same plot, I. A. Krylov wrote the fable "Mot and Swallow" (1818), in which this expression is called a folk proverb: "Yes, he just forgot the proverb among the people: / That a swallow alone does not make spring." |
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