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A little bit more
Nozhkin M.I.
Phraseologism: A little more, a little bit more.
Meaning: Used as a suggestion to be patient, wait, etc. (jokingly ironic).
Origin: From the chorus to the song "The Last Fight", written (poetry and music) by the actor, poet, singer-songwriter Mikhail Ivanovich Nozhkin (b. 1937), who first performed it in the film "Liberation" (1970): "A little more, a little more - a little, // The last fight is the most difficult one. // And I want to go to Russia, I want to go home, // I haven't seen my mother for so long."
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Meaning:
About patriotic motives of actions in order to justify crimes.
Origin:
From English: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Usually attributed to L. N. Tolstoy and interpreted incorrectly: supposedly the writer condemned patriotism as a feeling worthy only of scoundrels. The author of the expression is the English poet, critic, literary historian and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), who wanted to emphasize the nobility of patriotism with this phrase. And even the word "patriot" he wrote only with a capital letter. So, in the article "Patriot" (1774), which had the subtitle "Appeal to the Electors of Great Britain", S. Johnson urged his readers to elect worthy people to the English Parliament, true defenders of the interests of their country, because "only a Patriot is worthy of a seat in Parliament. Nobody no other will protect our rights, no one else will deserve our trust." And a patriot, according to S. Johnson, is one "whose public activity is determined by only one single motive - love for his country, one who, representing us in parliament, is guided in each case not by personal motives and fears, not by personal kindness or resentment, but by common interests "(quoted from: Literary newspaper. 2001. April 18-24). Thus, the author's meaning of this statement is: not everything is lost even for the most notorious villain, if a sense of patriotism is still alive in him, obeying which he can perform a good deed, a noble deed in war or in peacetime. That is, patriotism for such a person is the last chance to be morally reborn, to justify his life. Subsequently, the expression was rethought and began to be perceived as a call not to trust the big words about patriotism and civic duty. But both in the first and in the second case it does not allow a scornful, derogatory interpretation of patriotism as the morality of scoundrels. |
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