Phraseology


Superstitions and legends


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Superstitions and legends

  • Superstitions and legends
  • a black sheep — 'a less successful or more immoral person in a family or a group'. People believed that a black sheep was marked by the devil
  • the halcyon days — 'a very happy or successful period in the past'

historical facts and events, personalities

  • historical facts and events, personalities
  • - to do a Thatcher — 'to stay in power as prime minister for three consecutive terms (from the former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher)

phenomena and facts of everyday life

  • phenomena and facts of everyday life
  • - carry coals to Newcastle — 'to take something to a place where there is plenty of it available'. Newcastle is a town in Northern England where a lot of coal was produced.

Borrowed phraseological units

  • the Holy Script
  • the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing — 'communication in an organization is bad so that one Part does not know what is happening in another part‘
  • the kiss of Judas — 'any displav of affection whose purpose is to conceal any act of treachery’

ancient legends and myths

  • ancient legends and myths
  • - a Procrustean bed — 'a harsh, inhumane system into which the individual is fitted by force, regardless of his own needs and wishes' (from Greek Mythology, Procrustes — a robber who forced travelers to lie on a bed and made them fit by stretching their limbs or cutting off the appropriate length of leg

facts and events of the world history

  • facts and events of the world history
  • -to cross the Rubicon — 'to do something which will have very important results which cannot be changed after'. Julius Caesar started a war which resulted in victory for him by crossing the river Rubicon in Italy

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