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After her miraculous escape from the fire we’ve decided she leads a charmed life. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth is confident of success against Macduff because he bears a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born, but the magic does not work because Macduff turns out to have been born by Caesarean section and therefore not born of a woman in the usual way. In Macbeth (Act V, S c. 3), Macbeth defies Macduff to harm him: I bear a charmed life, using charmed in the sense of magical.
lock, stock and barrel со всеми пожитками / манатками / потрохами M E A N I N G : the whole of something; all the parts of a thing; everything He sold everything – lock, stock and barrel – and moved to California. ORIGIN: This saying originally referred to just the three main parts of a gun: the lock (the firing mechanism), the stock (the handle), and the barrel (the tube the bullet is fired through). By the early 19th century the expression came to mean all of anything or the whole works. The origin might also be in the old general store, which had a lock on the door to the stock, or goods, and a barrel on which business took place. long time no see cколько лет, сколько зим; cто лет не виделись M E A N I N G : it’s nice to see you again after such a long time Hello, Charles! Long time no see. Fancy a drink? ORIGIN: This now jocular greeting originates in Pidgin English, a mixture of English and features of native languages which was used in parts of the former British Empire especially for trading. A translation of the Chinese hao jiu bu jian.
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