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  • MediaDB / «About some local proverbs and sayings of the Nizhny Novgorod province" Nikolai Dobrolyubov: download fb2, read online

    About the book: year / "...Proverbs and sayings are still held in high esteem among us and have a wide application, especially in the lower and middle class of the people . By the way, sometimes an important dispute ends with the above proverb, bewilderment is resolved, ignorance is covered up... An honest company sometimes makes fun of a smart - and perhaps not smart - proverb, having found in it some application to their circle. A proverb is sometimes used to hint at someone’s sin, to wriggle out of serious interrogation, or even to justify a wrong deed.…»