kuda tsar' idet peshkom

[Helena Calogeridis]

Yes, in the Czech language the saying goes: Kam i císař chodí pěšky.
H. Calogeridis

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frans Suasso
Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2008 10:56 AM
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] kuda tsar' idet peshkom

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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