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Do a Lord Lucan Do a Lord Lucan – «свалить как лорд Лукан»; исчезнуть, испариться; (разг.) сбежать, слинять, смыться If someone disappears without a trace or runs off, they do a Lord Lucan, who disappeared after a murder. Richard John Bingham, popularly known as Lord Lucan, and sometimes colloquially called “Lucky” Lucan, was a British peer, who disappeared in the early hours of 8 November 1974, following the murder of Sandra Rivett, his children’s nanny, the previous evening. There has been no verified sighting of him since then, so he was declared legally dead in October 1999. Do a Melba (Austr, New Zeal inf) – устроить затянувшееся прощание, долгий уход со сцены Return from retirement; make several farewell appearances. The Australian operatic soprano Nellie Melba (the stage name of Helen Porter Mitchell, 1861–1931) made repeated “farewell” appearances. Australian soprano primarily with London’s Covent Garden (1888–1926) and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City (1893–1910). Doctor Fell – доктор Фелл, человек, вызывающий к себе невольную антипатию John Fell (1625–1686) was an English churchman and influential academic. He served as Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford. He was the most zealous man of his time for the Church of England and he made many converts from the Roman Catholics and Nonconformists. He was a disciplinarian, and possessed a talent for the education of young men, many of whom he received into his own family. Tom Brown, author of “The Dialogues of the Dead”, about to be expelled from Oxford for some offence, was pardoned by Fell on the condition of his translating ex tempore the 32nd epigram of Martial, a Latin poet from Hispania: Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere – quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. To which he immediately replied with the well-known lines: I do not love thee, Dr Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; 46