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Honest/Old Abe laughter of the latter kind. Such belly shaking laughter is called Homeric laughter because this is how the gods laughed in Homer’s classics. When you think about it, this is how the crazy Homer Simpson laughs as well! Homer sometimes nods – (букв.) и Гомер может клевать носом; каждый может ошибиться; на всякого мудреца довольно простоты; и на старуху бывает проруха This is an expression which is not heard very often these days. Homer is the Greek poet who wrote two great epics: the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”. The word “nod” in this context means to “fall asleep”. What the idiom means is “nobody is perfect”: even someone as great as Homer ended up making mistakes in his two epics. The idiom is actually a translation of a line from the Roman poet Horace, who in his “De Ars Poetica”, wrote: “I think it is a shame when the worthy Homer nods: but in so long a work it is allowable if drowsiness comes on.” What happens when you are at work and feel drowsy? As you are unable to think clearly, you begin to make numerous mistakes: When I told Jill there were a couple of errors in her report, she replied that even Homer sometimes nods. Honest/Old Abe (Am) – честный/старый Эйб (прозвище президента Авраама Линкольна) Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Abraham Lincoln had many nicknames during his lifetime – the Rail Splitter, The Great Emancipator, The Liberator, Father Abraham, Uncle Abe – but perhaps none of these is as widely recognized and referenced today as the nickname, Honest Abe. Innumerable incidents are related of Lincoln, who sprang to protect defenseless women from insult, or feeble children from tyranny; for in the rude community in which he lived, the rights of the defenseless 73