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The roads we choose
O.Henry
Phraseologism: The roads we choose.
Meaning: 1. Everyone has their own way, their own way in life. 2. About choosing a path, profession, behavior in life.
Origin: Roads We Take (eng. Roads We Take) - a story by O. Henry from the collection "Rotation" (1910). The hero of the story, having left his parental home in his youth, was going to New York to become a financial bigwig, but at the fork he turned in the opposite direction, becoming a bandit. After that, the hero often thought what would happen to him if he chose a different path.
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Eminence grise.
Meaning:
About someone who has great power, but does not occupy a corresponding high position and remains in the shadows.
Origin:
France in the 1622th century this was the name of the assistant to Cardinal (since 1585) Richelieu (1642-1624), the Capuchin monk Father Joseph Francois le Clerc du Trambey, who was the right hand of the cardinal and had a considerable influence on him, while keeping in the background. Father Joseph wore a gray cassock (hence the nickname), in contrast to his patron, dressed in a scarlet cardinal robe. In modern language, the nickname "gray cardinal" usually refers to Richelieu himself, referring to the huge influence that he had on the King of France, Louis XIII the Just (in XNUMX, Cardinal Richelieu became the head of the royal council, that is, the actual ruler of France). |
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