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Why, without fear of sin, the cuckoo praises the rooster?

Krylov I.A.

Phraseologism: Why, without fear of sin, the cuckoo praises the rooster?

Meaning: About hypocrites praising each other out of selfish motives.

Origin: From the fable "The Cuckoo and the Rooster" (1834) by I. A. Krylov (1769-1844). It depicts two writers contemporary to Krylov - the co-editors of "Northern Bee" and "Son of the Fatherland" Thaddeus Bulgarin and Nikolai Grech. Their mutual glorification served as the subject of ridicule by many writers of that time, including A. S. Pushkin (pamphlet "The Triumph of Friendship, or the Justified Alexander Anfimovich Orlov", 1831). A contemporary of the fabulist N. M. Kalmykov wrote in his memoirs (Russian archive, 1865): "These faces in the journals of the thirties praised each other to oblivion or, as they say, to insensibility. I heard this explanation from I. A. Krylov himself" .

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Meaning:

Used in the literal sense.

Origin:

From Latin: Tetrora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis. Attributed to the Frankish emperor Lothair I (c. 795-855), as well as to the English utopian philosopher Robert Owen (1771-1858), who used this expression in his Epigrams.

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