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Sweet William Sweet Fanny Adams – «милашка Фанни Адамс»; ничего, пустое место Fanny Adams (1859–1867) was a young English girl murdered by solicitor’s clerk Frederick Baker in Alton, Hampshire. The murder of eight year-old Fanny Adams that shocked and appalled the nation, still remains the most vicious and barbaric crime ever perpetrated against a child in British history. In 1869, soon after the famous murder case, new rations of tinned mutton were introduced for British seamen. They were unimpressed by it, and decided it must be the butchered remains of Fanny Adams. So, the expression sweet Fanny Adams has come, through British naval slang, to mean “nothing at all”. It is often abbreviated in speech to sweet FA, which is vulgarly understood to be a euphemism for the taboo phrase fuck all. Sweet William – «славный Вильям», турецкая гвоздика; цветок королевского свадебного букета невесты принца Уильяма, Кейт Миддлтон In addition to traditional wedding flowers of hyacinth and lily-of-the-valley, Kate Middleton’s wedding bouquet included myrtle and sweet William; myrtle has been part of royal wedding bouquets since Queen Victoria’s daughter carried it in her wedding bouquet in 1858. In addition, the bride apparently chose to add sweet William to her bouquet in homage to her new husband. Sweet William is a herbaceous biennial or perennial plant. The five-petaled flowers of sweet William are clustered at the top of the stem and are fragrant; the wild plant has red flowers with a white base. Sweet William is native to southern Europe but is also a popular British garden flower. According to the official Royal Wedding 2011 website, Kate Middleton chose the flowers for her bridal bouquet in part based on the meaning of each flower in the 159