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ORIGIN: The wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, is responsible for this expression. He first used it in a speech in 1940 during the Second World War, just after London had been bombed heavily by the Germans. He said, “The maxim of the British people is ‘Business as usual’” – meaning that the population would carry on a normal life despite the bombs. Soon notices with the phrase appeared on buildings throughout the city – shops, offices, post offices and banks. Today it is not associated with war, but it is used to describe life continuing as normal despite problems or disasters. business before pleasure делу время, а / и потехе час M E A N I N G : there should be time for work and time for leisure I’m afraid I’ll have to go. Business before pleasure, you know. ORIGIN: Another version of the phrase, Business first, pleasure afterwards, belongs to W. Thackeray, a 19th century English writer. The Russian equivalent is attributed to tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (1629–1676). Nowadays the words are usually wrongly interpreted to mean: most of one’s time should be given to work, and only a small part of it to leisure. busman’s holiday в отпуске делать то же, что на работе M E A N I N G : spending your free time doing the same thing you do during working hours Victor went back to his carpentry shop after spending all weekend building out treehouse. What a busman’s holiday! ORIGIN: In London, during the late1800s and early 1900s, buses were pulled by horses. Some bus drivers loved their horses so much that on their days off from work, they would ride on their own buses just to make sure that other bus drivers took good care of the horses. This habit got to be called a busman’s 23