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L labor of love бескорыстный труд; для души; по велению сердца M E A N I N G : work done not for money but for love or a sense of accomplishment He didn’t get paid for painting the nursing home. It was a labor of love. ORIGIN: In the New Testament of the Bible there is a phrase about work done for pleasure without profit, your work of faith and labor of love. The English expression labor of love became popular around the seventeenth century, when many people worked at something because they loved doing it and not for money. Also, labor and love both begin with the letter l, and that alliteration helped make the expression easy to remember. lame duck хромая / подстреленная утка (о бесперспективном политике) M E A N I N G : an elected official in the last days of their time on the job; an ineffectual person who cannot function socially or in the workplace In the last year of their secondary terms, American presidents are lame ducks. ORIGIN: The original lame duck was said to have been a London stockbroker in Exchange Alley, home 69