Afanasy Ivanovich and Pulcheria Ivanovna. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Afanasy Ivanovich and Pulcheria Ivanovna

Gogol N.V.

Phraseologism: Afanasy Ivanovich and Pulcheria Ivanovna.

Meaning: Innocent, naive townsfolk, gentle spouses leading a serene, "vegetative" existence.

Origin: Heroes of N. V. Gogol's story "Old World Landowners" (1835).

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Sing Lazarus.

Meaning:

Begging, whining, exaggeratedly complaining about fate, trying to arouse the sympathy of others.

Origin:

In tsarist Russia, crowds of beggars, cripples, blind men with guides gathered everywhere in crowded places, begging, with all sorts of miserable lamentations, alms from passers-by. At the same time, the blind especially often sang the song "About the Rich and Lazarus", composed according to one gospel story. Lazarus was poor, but his brother was rich. Lazarus ate the remnants of the rich man's food along with the dogs, but after death he went to heaven, while the rich man ended up in hell. This song was supposed to frighten and conscience those from whom the beggars begged for money. Since not all beggars were actually so unfortunate, their plaintive moans were often feigned.

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The world's most famous sheep, Dolly the Sheep, was born in 1996 as a result of a procedure called nuclear transfer. Its essence is that a nucleus with its own genetic material is taken out of the egg, and in return for it a foreign nucleus is introduced, taken, as in the case of Dolly the sheep, from the cell of the udder of another sheep.

As you know, the number of chromosomes in germ cells, in spermatozoa and in eggs is haploid, that is, single. During fertilization, another single set, the paternal one, comes into the egg with the sperm, and, having acquired a double, that is, a diploid set of chromosomes, the egg starts the program for the development of the organism. Ordinary cells, which make up the whole body, contain precisely a double set of chromosomes.

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