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Phraseologism: Indian summer.

Meaning: Clear warm days in early autumn.

Origin: There are several versions of the etymology of the combination. According to one of them, the expression is associated with that period in the life of the peasants (the beginning of autumn), when field work ended and women took up household chores: they soaked flax, ruffled it, wove it. According to another version, the combinations of Indian summer, Indian days, Indian cold in the old days had a meaning based on superstition: women have the power to return the seasons back and generally influence the weather. In addition, Indian summer is called a thin, light web that flies through fields and forests and portends a dry autumn. This web is associated with women's barely noticeable gray hair, and the time of warm and fine days with her age, which precedes the elderly and is characterized by relative prosperity.

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Spinoza.

Meaning:

1. Philosopher. 2. Dancer.

Origin:

In Russia in the 1890th century this word meant not only the name of a famous Dutch philosopher, but also (colloquially) a dashing dancer whose choreographic skill was on the verge of a circus trick. For example, in A.P. Chekhov: "I am not some Spinoza to make a pretzel with my feet" (the story "The Wedding", 1869). The original source is the surname of the Spanish grotesque ballet dancer Leon Espinosa, who in 1872-70. was a member of the ballet troupe of the Bolshoi Theater and was a huge success with the public. Subsequently, his name in the bourgeois and merchant circles of Moscow turned into "Spinoza" and became a household name (90-1632s of the XIX century) for every kind of clever dancer. Of course, the philosopher Benedict Spinoza (1677-XNUMX) has nothing to do with such a "Spinoza".

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