kuda tsar' peshkom xodil

[Alina Israeli]

The actual expression is kuda tsar' peshkom xodil: http:// 
www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US% 
3Aofficial&q=%22%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0+%D1%86%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C+%D0% 
BF%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%22&btnG=Search

Not that I could find anything to that effect in Tom Lehrer.

On Apr 3, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Deborah Hoffman wrote:

> 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)


Alina Israeli
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