kuda tsar' idet peshkom

[Emily Saunders]

The first language I ever heard the expression in was Croatian (my  
apologies for the likely spelling errors, it's been awhile and I'm not  
sure how to add the required diacriticals):  Idem tamo gdje i car ide  
pesice.

Emily

On Apr 3, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Frans Suasso wrote:

> The expression is German, or rather Austrian, because the Austrians  
> had an Emperor long  before the Germans did.
>
> The Expression is:
>
> Wo selbst der Kaiser zu Fuss geht.
>
> Some others  borrowed it. Not only the Russians,  but also the Dutch
> :
> Waar zelfs de keizer te voet gaat.
>
> I( do not know about other  languages. Does anybody?
>
> Frans Suasso, Naarden the Netherlands
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Hoffman" <lino59 at AMERITECH.NET 
> >
> To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:35 PM
> 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
>>
>> A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a  
>> master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a  
>> beginner all his life. -- R. G. Collingwood
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