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Vicar of Bray Vicar of Bray xîfâèêz (Br) – ренегат, приспособленец, беспринципная личность (по имени викария XVII века, четыре раза менявшего религию) A Vicar of Bray is a person who changes their allegiances and views in accordance with what is suitable at the time to stay popular with people above them. A vicar (Simon Aleyn) appointed to the parish of Bray in Berkshire during Henry VIII’s reign who changed his faith to Catholic when Mary I was on the throne and back to Protestant when Elizabeth I succeeded and so retained his living. Also, a satirical 18th century ballad, The Vicar of Bray, recounts the career of a vicar of Bray, and his contortions of principle in order to retain his ecclesiastic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs from Charles II to George I, and restoration of Charles II. W (Hookey) Walker! – Врёшь! Не может быть! Как бы не так! Вы серьёзно? Да пошёл ты! The full expression was originally Hookey Walker, which starts to appear in the early 19th century. It was an exclamation of disbelief or of an opinion that something was all humbug. There are several stories about where it came from. One of them (C. Brewer “Dictionary of Phrase and Fable”, 1894) says that John Walker was an out-door clerk and was noted for his eagle nose, which gained him the nickname of Old Hookey. Walker’s duty was to keep the workmen to their work, or report them to the principals. Of course, it was the interest of employees to throw discredit on Walker’s reports, and the poor man was so badgered and ridiculed that he had to quit, but Hookey Walker still means a tale not to be trusted. Also, Walker is a dismissive term, a colloquialism meaning something like get lost, take a hike or yeah, rright! Charles MacKay, a Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer, 170