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Making a good face on a bad game

French
French

Phraseologism: Make a good face on a bad game.

Meaning: Try to hide your failures and troubles under external calmness.

Origin: The expression - tracing paper from the French "faire bonne mine a mauvais jeu", goes back to the speech of gamblers who, having received bad cards, try to appear cheerful. "Mina" - "face", "game" here - "layout of cards".

Random phraseology:

Weeping vale.

Meaning:

Earthly life with its sorrows and sufferings (sadness, tears).

Origin:

From the Bible (Church Slavonic text). Old Testament (Psalm, 83:7): "Into the vale of deplorable, put it in a hedgehog place: for the blessing will give the one who sets the law" - "Walking through the valley of weeping, people whose strength is in You open springs in it, and the rain covers it with blessing." "Yudol" in Old Slavonic means valley.

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