Son v ruku

[R_L]

At 10:32 PM 12/5/96 -0500, Robert Whittaker wrote:
>>Does anyone have a sense of the origin of the expression "Son v ruku"
>
>A classical origin is in Griboedov, "Gore ot uma," at the close of Act I
>(scenes 8-10), where Famusov contemplates what Sofiia meant by the phrase
>(repeated several times).
No way (or I simly don't understand what is 'origin')! Griboedov only uses
this proverb (ot how do we call "pogovorka"?).
Roman Leibov, lecturer
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