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Mountain gave birth to a mouse

Quintus Horace Flaccus

Phraseologism: The mountain gave birth to a mouse.

Meaning: About intense efforts, efforts to do something big, significant, which end up with ridiculously small results.

Origin: The expression goes back to Aesop's fable. The Roman poet Horace uses it, ridiculing bad poets who want to create something monumental, "to give birth to mountains", but in the heavy throes of creativity they are allowed only by an insignificantly small mouse: "Mountains want to give birth, but a funny little mouse will be born." Russian proverb - the result of an inaccurate translation of Horace.

Random phraseology:

But old age walks cautiously and looks suspiciously.

Meaning:

About the worldview of an elderly person who is guided in his relations with people by his worldly (negative) experience.

Origin:

From the poem (song 1) "Poltava" (1829) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837).

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