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The wickedness of the day

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Phraseologism: Evil of the day.

Meaning: What is relevant is of particular interest right now, today.

Origin: From the Bible (Church Slavonic text). Gospel of Matthew (6:34): "...the days of his wickedness prevail." The verb "sufficient" means "enough", "enough", the word "malice" - "care", "interest", "task", etc. Verse 34 translated into modern Russian: "So do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow he will take care of his own: enough for each day of his care. That is, today it is better to solve today's pressing problems, you should not worry ahead of time about what may (or may not) be in the future.

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Rotten West.

Meaning:

It is used ironically, as a rule, with an indication of the well-known difference in the development of Russia and Western countries.

Origin:

The expression of the famous Russian critic Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (1810-1848), who used this phrase as irony over the views of his ideological opponent - the historian of Russian literature, publicist of the Slavophile persuasion, professor at Moscow University Stepan Petrovich Shevyrev (1806-1864). The latter, although he never used this expression directly - "the rotten West" - spoke a lot about the "ill health" of the West. To which one of M. P. Pogodin’s acquaintances, the editor and publisher of the Moskvityanin magazine, where Shevyrev often published, was even forced to write to him (1844): “Do yourself a favour, take Shevyrev away, he is obsessed with the rotting West” (Barsukov N Life and Works of M. P. Pogodin, Vol. VIII, St. Petersburg, 1894). For the first time this thesis appears in Shevyrev's article "The Russian View on the Education of Europe", published in the first issue of the magazine "Moskvityanin" for 1841. In it, the author writes: "In our sincere friendly close relations with the West, we do not notice that we are dealing as as if with a man who carries within himself an evil, contagious disease, surrounded by an atmosphere of dangerous breath... We kiss him, embrace him, share the meal of thought, drink the cup of feeling... and do not notice the hidden poison in our careless communion, we do not smell the feast of the future in the amusement corpse, which he already smells of." Belinsky entered into a polemic with Shevyrev, rejecting his "thought about the moral decay of the West" (the article "Works of VF Odoevsky"). And in an article (1845) about V. A. Sollogub's story "Tarantas", Belinsky, arguing in absentia with Shevyrev, for the first time formulates this expression - "the rotten West", which, ironically, will later be perceived as an expression born among the Slavophiles, that is opponents of Belinsky. Outlining the plot of Sollogub's satirical story, the critic writes: "... Avdotya Petrovna herself treats the sick with simple means. The conclusion from all this is that everything is fine as it is, and no changes for the better, especially in a foreign spirit, are needed at all. In in fact, what is the use of a hospital and a doctor corrupted by the knowledge of the rotten West - what are they for where every illiterate woman knows how to treat with simple means? .. " Subsequently, this expression will be used ironically by both M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin and I. S. Turgenev. So, the latter will put into the mouth of the hero of the novel "Smoke" (1868) "Westerner" Potugin the following words (5): "Ten Russians will meet, the question instantly arises ... about the meaning, about the future of Russia ... And of course, right there the rotten West will also get it..." Potugin's own opinion (apparently similar to the author's position) is as follows: "He is rotten, rotten, but he beats us on all counts." The phrase is a symbol of the position of a pseudo-patriot and a principled "anti-Western".

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