About the book: 2011 / The author of the book talks about sources of 1,500 popular words and expressions that reflect ethical values, artistic taste, and the wit of modern native speakers and are closely related to the cultural canon of the Russian nation. Each winged unit is accompanied by a semantic, stylistic, situational characteristic, illustrated with examples of use in its diverse transformations. Most of the described winged units date back to various genres of art of the 19th-21st centuries. and testifies to the versatility of the talent of the Russian people, who managed to capture in laconic, elegant formulas their attitude to life in all its manifestations. The book is addressed to the widest readership - journalists, philologists, students, teachers, schoolchildren and all those who are not indifferent to the history of Russian culture and to the history of the Russian language.