kuda tsar' idet peshkom

[Pendergast, J. Mr DFL]

Certainly, though as Donna Seifer correctly pointed out, it should be KHODIT, since the Tsar would presumably make this trip quite regularly. 

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Subject: [SEELANGS] kuda tsar' idet peshkom

This is an actual expression? And here all these years I thought Tom Lehrer had made it up (in "Lobachevsky").
   
  >Date:    Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:21:53 -0400
>From:    "Pendergast, J. Mr DFL" <John.Pendergast at USMA.EDU>
>Subject: Re: two fashion terms
>
>Apropos of the "toilet" P.S. below - and apologies if this one already
 >came up in prior discussion - but a phrase that I always liked that I
> have heard among military colleagues (and which at least one civilian
 >colleague met with a wince) is "idu tuda, kuda tsar' idyot peshkom."
 >(èäó òóäà, êóäà öàðü èä¸ò ïåøêîì) 
>
>John Pendergast
>Assistant Professor of Russian
>United States Military Academy
>745 Brewerton Road
>West Point, NY 10996
>845-938-0310



Deborah Hoffman, Esq.
Russian > English Legal and Literary Translations

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