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Living corpse

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Phraseologism: Living Dead.

Meaning: 1. Spiritually dead person, idle, hobbies and feelings. 2. Seriously ill, emaciated person.

Origin: The original source is the Bible. In the New Testament, in the Epistle of the first Apostle Paul to Timothy (5:6), it speaks of a voluptuous widow who died alive. For the first time this expression - in its well-known form - is found in A. S. Pushkin (the poem "Poltava", song 3): "... Gets up from his bed // Mazepa, this frail sufferer, // This corpse is alive, yesterday / / Moaning weakly over the grave." But it became popular after the stage performance of the play "The Living Corpse" (1900) by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). The hero of the play, nobleman Fyodor Protasov, imitates suicide and, hiding from his wife and friends, lives at the bottom of society, becoming, figuratively speaking, a "living corpse".

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What a filthy fish of yours!

Meaning:

Used as a playful form of condemnation of something (not necessarily any dish).

Origin:

From the film "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!" (1975), filmed by director Eldar Alexandrovich Ryazanov (1927) based on a script co-written with Emil Veniaminovich Braginsky (1921-1998). Ippolit's words (actor Yuri Yakovlev).

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