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Drive like Jehu
Drive like Jehu (inf) – бешено мчаться, нестись сломя голову (на машине) Drive very fast, carelessly, or recklessly. Drive Like Jehu was an American post-hardcore and alternative rock band from San Diego active from 1990 to 1995. Jehu as a noun may refer to a king of Israel noted for his furious chariot attacks; also, jehu is a fast driver or the driver of a cab or coach. Dryasdust – «г-н Сухарь», сухой и педантичный человек (по имени вымышленного лица, которому Вальтер Скотт посвятил ряд романов) Dr Jonas Dryasdust was Sir Walter Scott’s (1771–1832) own creation. He pretends to dedicate the novel to him for supplying him with dry historical details. At the beginning of the novel “Ivanhoe”, Sir Walter Scott writes: DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THE REV. Dr DRYASDUST, F.A.S. Since then the derisory term is used to describe anyone who presents historical facts with no feeling for the personalities involved, making the story dull, dry, or boring. Duke of Exeter’s Daughter – (ист.) «дочь герцога Эксетерского»; дыба, орудие пыток (изобретение этого орудия приписывают герцогу Эксетерскому в царствование Генриха VI) (см. Scavenger’s Daughter, с. 147) The Duke of Exeter’s daughter was a torture rack in the Tower of London. Its presence is said to have been due to John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, the Constable of the Tower in 1447, whence it got its name. The trial by rack is utterly unknown to the law of England, though once when some ministers of Henry VI designed to introduce the civil (i.e. Roman) law into the kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture, which was called in derision the Duke of Exeter’s daughter, which still remains in the Tower of London. In Queen Elizabeth’s
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