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No more Mr Nice Guy
No more Mr Nice Guy – перестать миндальничать и начать принимать жёсткие меры Used to suggest that you will stop being lenient and begin to adopt more severe measures. Nice guy is a term in the general public discourse and in popular culture describing an adult or teenage male with friendly yet unassertive personality traits in the context of a relationship with a woman. A typical nice guy believes in putting the needs of others before his own, avoids confrontations, does favors, gives emotional support, and generally acts nicely towards women. “Nice guy,” as in “Mr Nice Guy,” connotes weakness. No more Mr Nice Guy is a warning before retaliation, the end of passive acceptance of unfairness or harsh treatment. This gloves-off warning was popularized in the 1970s. Richard Nixon was asked by “The Washington Post” in 1977 about his response to Vietnam War protests: When was the moment when in effect, you said, “OK, no more Mr Nice Guy”? No way, Jose! – ни за что, ни за какие коврижки Absolutely not; never. This slang expression originated in America sometime around the 1960s. In Chapman and Kipfer’s “Dictionary of American Slang” no way is listed as a 1960s phrase and no way Jose as originating in Village Voice. Unfortunately, they don’t present any other details to check that assertion. The first verified citation is found from “The Washington Post”, December 1979: I’ve got nothing against robots. But no way, Jose, is this guy going to win. Why Jose? There’s no reason to think that Jose was an actual person. The name was probably chosen for the rhyme with “no way”, which predates the longer phrase. Noah’s ark – Ноев ковчег A vessel appearing in the Book of Genesis and the Quran. These narratives describe the construction of a large, seagoing ark by the Patriarch Noah at God’s command to save himself, his family, and the world’s animals from the Great Flood. In the narrative of the ark, God sees the wickedness of man and is grieved by his creation, resolving
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