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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

Phraseologism: Don Quixote.

Meaning: A noble eccentric who tries to act according to his convictions, without regard to reality (joking iron).

Origin: The protagonist of the novel "Don Quixote" (full author's title of the novel "The Glorious Knight of Don Quixote of La Mancha", 1615) by the Spanish writer Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra (1547-1616). The first Russian translation of the novel was published (1769) under the title "The Unheard-of Wizard, or the Amazing and Extraordinary Adventures of the Wandering Knight Don Quixote". Don Quixote is a poor Spanish nobleman, an old eccentric dreamer who, having read chivalric novels, imagined himself a knight-errant and set off to protect the unjustly offended, fight villains and giants, perform glorious deeds in the name of his beautiful lady - Dulcinea of Toboso (in reality - a simple peasant woman Aldonsa). Naturally, collisions with reality end sadly for Don Quixote, and his squire, the peasant Sancho Panza, calls his master "the knight of a sad image." The name has its own derivatives - "quixotic" and "quixotic". This verb was introduced into Russian literature by G. R. Derzhavin. In his ode "Felitsa" (1782) there are the words: "Keeping customs, rituals, // You don't donkish yourself." This Derzhavin verb is derived from "Don Quixote" - an archaic pronunciation and spelling of the name of the hero Cervantes.

Random phraseology:

To be more royalist than the king.

Meaning:

About someone who goes further than the one whose views or interests they represent.

Origin:

The French writer Chateaubriand (1768-1848) points out that this expression arose during the reign of Louis XVI, that is, between 1774 and 1793. (La monarchie selon la charte, Paris, 1816, p. 94) (Buchmann, Gefliigelte Worte). There is a similar expression: "To be more papist than the pope." The sequence of occurrence of these expressions is not established. The expression "To be more royalist than the king" is often used in French: "Etre plus royaliste que le roi".

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