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ORIGIN:
This expression relates to a poll tax imposed by Danish authorities on the Irish people during the ninth century. The punishment for not paying the tax was to have your nose slit open with a knife as an example to others.
pie in the sky журавль в небе M E A N I N G : something not possible; an unrealistic hope He says he will get a well paid job but I think it’s just a pie in the sky.
ORIGIN:
In 1906 an American union organizer wrote a song called “The Preacher and the Slave” that had the words: Work and pray, Live on the hay, You’ll get a pie in the sky when you die! (That’s a lie.) Pie meant decent working conditions and good wages. Union workers wanted those things while they were alive, not after they died. The song was popular, and the phrase pie in the sky came to mean promised pleasures that probably won’t come true, or rewards that are given after you die.
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