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берегись воды! (возглас хозяек, выливающих из окна помои // comment by ART Vancouver: историческое пояснение: For much of its history, Edinburgh was a poor place, torn by civil and religious strife, preyed upon by a gangster nobility. It was a dirty city, chronically short of water, whose inhabitants empties chamberpots from tenement windows with a cry of 'Gardyloo!' -- a corrupt form of the French "garde a l'eau", 'mind the water'. (AA Illustrated Guide To Britain)); берегись! (used in Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets; perhaps from French garde à l'eau! look out for the water! First Known Use: 1622 VLZ_58) |
