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ORIGIN: Many country fairs used to sell piglets which were put in bags so that they could be carried home. Unfortunately some of the traders were not honest and put a cat, which was less valuable, into the bag instead of a piglet. It wasn’t until the customer returned home that the cat was let out of the bag and the secret was revealed. lie low затаиться / затихариться; лечь на дно M E A N I N G : to conceal yourself or your intentions After holding up the bank, the robbers lay low for a while. ORIGIN: The reference is to a hunter hiding down in the undergrowth waiting for his prey. In the Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Br’er Rabbit frequently lay low. lies, damned lies and statistics есть ложь, наглая ложь и статистика M E A N I N G : there are ordinary lies, very harmful lies and (most shameless of all) statistics which seem to show the truth, but can be exploited to show the opposite 72