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Дарёному коню в зубы не смотрят
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Proverb.
19
Держать в ежовых рукавицах
Handle without mittens
Idiomatic expression, which literally
means: to hold in the hedgehog
gloves
Historically, these gloves made of thick
leather were convenient for lifting a
hedgehog, in order
to
move
him to a
barn,
basement
,
etc., so that he could
catch all the mice that lived there.
Some people also associate this
expression with the surname of the
People's
Commissar of the NKVD in
1930s (
Ежов) who was
presiding
over mass arrests and executions
during Stalin's
Great Purge and was
notorious for his extreme cruelty and
sadism toward
innocently arrested
people.
20
Добавить ложку дёгтя в бочку мёда
To add a spoon of tar in a barrel of
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: