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Why did the village old-timer from Eugene Onegin crush the flies?

In "Eugene Onegin" one can find the lines: "He settled in that peace // Where the village old-timer // Scolded for forty years with the housekeeper, // He looked out the window and crushed flies." The word "fly" is used here not in its direct meaning, but as a metaphor for alcohol. Another metaphor of a drunk person is also known - "under the fly", where the word fly is used in the same sense.

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