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And the ball is over

Illichevsky A.D.

Phraseologism: And the ball is over.

Meaning: About the end, completion of any business, about the finale of any event.

Origin: Mistakenly attributed to Russian urban folklore. The author of this expression is the poet Alexei Damianovich Illichevsky (1798-1837), a lyceum comrade of A. S. Pushkin. He wrote a lot (for example, A. S. Pushkin really liked his epigrams), but of all his poetic heritage, only these words from the poem "Three Blind Men" entered Russian speech: / The universe is ruled by three blind men: // Fortune, Death and Cupid. // Our life is a feast: with a welcoming caress // Fortune opens the hall, // Cupid commands the dance, // Death comes, and the ball is over.

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Pygmies.

Meaning:

Contemptuously about a morally, spiritually insignificant person.

Origin:

From Ancient Greek: Pigmaios. Literally: The size of a fist. In ancient Greek mythology, the fairy-tale people were called pygmies - dwarfs, who were so small that they often became victims of cranes, like frogs. Therefore, the dwarfs had to fight whole battles with these birds. The legendary poet of Ancient Greece Homer (IX century BC) in his poem "Iliad" mentions the enemies of the pygmies - cranes, which "Fleeing from winter and torrential rains, / Over the turbulent ocean sweep with a great noise, // Rod pygmies bringing death with them and murder, / In the early twilight with them entering into a fierce battle "Then the great scientist of Ancient Greece Aristotle (384-322 BC) remembered the pygmies. He called the pygmies a very real and small people, the existence of which in Africa, at the source of the Nile, was already known to the philosopher at that time. Aristotle and should be considered the author of the term, which is now firmly established in the scientific language and is used as a characteristic of the undersized peoples of Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania.

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