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add insult to injury подлить масла в огонь M E A N I N G : to heap humiliation on someone after they have already been hurt Having cut off our electricity in error, the Electricity Board added insult to injury by charging us the cost of reconnection. ORIGIN: The words appear to be from a Latin writer, Phaedrus, who refers to Aesop’s fable of the bald man who swatted a fly, missed and smacked himself on the head. The fly saw this as adding insult to injury. alas, poor Yorick бедный Йорик M E A N I N G : a lament for a dead person or scheme; used as an expression of compassion or sympathy Alas, poor Yorick! Your financial pyramid has toppled down. ORIGIN: “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.” This quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Act III, Sc.1; 1601) is often used ironically, but it was originally Hamlet’s sad remark on finding the skull of his old friend, the court jester, in the graveyard. alive and kicking жив здоров; жив курилка M E A N I N G : active or flourishing I had a letter from Rod. He’s still very much alive and kicking, working on a farm. ORIGIN: The metaphor is from fish selling, when the freshest fish for sale were those just caught and still moving. all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others все (звери) равны, но некоторые равнее M E A N I N G : in reality, not all the people proclaimed equal are able to enjoy equal rights There aren’t card votes at Westminster, but some votes are more equal than others. 6