User:Jekonis

"how do you do" has the same meaning as "do you want to kiss my ass?"

DE : willst du meinen arsch küssen SE : vill du kyssa min röv? NO : vil du kysse meg rumpa? FI : haluatko suudella minun perseeni? RU : ты хочешь поцеловать мою задницу?

a bit historically part :

Initially, talent was the largest weight and monetary unit in ancient Greece, Babylon, Persia and other areas of Asia Minor. From the Gospel parable about a man who received money and buried it, fearing to invest in the case, the expression "to bury talent in the ground" occurred. In modern Russian, this expression has acquired a portable shade in connection with the new meaning of the word talent and is used when a person does not care about the development of his abilities.

In the 1930s, multi-part programs appeared on American radio with unpretentious tear plots. Their sponsors were manufacturers of soap and other detergents, as the main audience of these programs were housewives. Therefore, the expression “soap opera” was attached to the radio and later television series.

The source of the expression “I understand a hedgehog” is a poem by Mayakovsky (“Clearly even a hedgehog is / This Peter was a bourgeois”). It was widely spread first in the Strugatsky story "The Country of the Crimson Clouds", and then in the Soviet boarding schools for gifted children. They were recruited by teenagers who have two years left to study (classes A, B, C, D, D) or one year (classes E, F, and I). Pupils of the one-year stream were called “hedgehogs”. When they came to the boarding school, the biennial students were already ahead of them in a non-standard program, therefore at the beginning of the school year the expression “hedgehog is clear” was very relevant. The expression ... "rub glasses"? Where did the expression "rub glasses" come from? In the 19th century, cheaters-card players resorted to tricks: in the process of playing with the help of a special adhesive composition, they put additional points on the cards (red or black marks) from the powder, and, if necessary, could erase these points. Hence the expression “rub in glasses”, meaning the presentation of something in a favorable light.