Potemkin villages or Potyomkin villages (, Potyomkinskiye derevni ) is an idiom based on an historical myth.

It can also be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it, as in idiom, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or personification.

This is a later interpretation of the idiom, as news broadcasts were not counted in ratings during the time 16mm film was used in newsgathering and hence promotions typically took the form of " newsflashes " or " special reports " which simply conveyed the facts of the story.

Most of Gordon's work is in the idiom of giant monster films, for which he used rear-projection to create the special effects.

The traditional word tomte lives on in an idiom, referring to the human caretaker of a property ( hustomten ), as well as referring to someone in one's building who mysteriously does someone a favour, such as hanging up ones laundry.

This idiom is appropriate for comparison-based sorting when the ordering is actually based on the ordering of a certain property ( the key ) of the elements, where computing that property is an intensive operation that should be performed a minimal number of times.

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One account of how the new band's name was chosen held that Moon and Entwistle had suggested that the supergroup with Page and Beck would go down like a " lead balloon ", a British idiom for disastrous results.

It was widely used to learn the pre-decimal British currency in this idiom: " a dozen pence and a score of bob ", referring to the 20 shillings in a pound.

The manner of his death gave rise to the obsolescent idiom, " to fight like King John of Bohemia ", meaning " to fight blindly ".

A common idiom is " to be ( live ) in clover ", meaning to live a carefree life of ease, comfort, or prosperity.

Brockman is responsible for popularizing the idiom " I, for one, welcome our new overlords ", sometimes used to express mock submission, usually for the purpose of humor.

", spoken by actor Frank Readick Jr., has earned a place in the American idiom.

But critic Deems Taylor voiced the opinion that the Rhapsody was " genuine jazz music, not only in its scoring but in its idiom ", and Henry Osgood claimed that Gershwin was able to " take the elements of jazz and employ them with a distinct degree of success in forms of composition higher and larger than popular songs and musical comedy ".

Its meaning is similar to the idiom " walk-the-talk " as its literal meaning includes " walking to religious teachings " or " sutra walking ", because the double meaning of the first character connotes walking the truth that is talked about in the sutras.

Though a popular idiom refers to " adding insult to injury ", in a medical context, they are one and the same: physicians examine injuries resulting from an insult to flesh and bones, caused by various traumatic events.

The subgenre was further popularised in 1973 by Thin Lizzy, who had a hit with " Whiskey in the Jar ", a traditional Irish song performed entirely in the rock idiom.

The English idiom " to go back to the drawing board ", which is a figurative phrase meaning to rethink something altogether, was inspired by the literal act of discovering design errors during production and returning to a drawing board to revise the engineering drawing.

The term typically encompasses not only the meaning of the similar English idiom " turn of the century ", but also both the closing and onset of an era, as it was felt to be a period of degeneration, but at the same time a period of hope for a new beginning.

Proponents of the eliminative materialism, understand intentional idiom, such as " belief ", " desire ", and the like, to be replaceable either with behavioristic language ( e. g. Quine ) or with the language of neuroscience ( e. g. Churchland ).

" In saecula saeculorum ", here rendered " ages of ages ", is the translation of what was probably a Semitic idiom, via Koine Greek, meaning " forever.

He was an innovator in the big band idiom, using unusual instrumentation ; " Interlude in B-flat ", where he was backed with only a rhythm section and a string quartet, was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed third stream.

" Another idiom: " Az men redt fun der malech, kumt der galech ", which translates to " Talk about the angel, and here comes the priest.

In presenting the particularly English elements of this environment, Keats was also influenced by contemporary poet and essayist Leigh Hunt, who had recently written of the arrival of autumn with its " migration of birds ", " finished harvest ", " cyder [...] making " and migration of " the swallows ", as well as by English landscape painting and the " pure " English idiom of the poetry of Thomas Chatterton.

The dominant social class of the Northeast possessed the confidence to proclaim an " American Renaissance ", which could be identified in the rush of new public institutions that marked the period — hospitals, museums, colleges, opera houses, libraries, orchestras — and by the Beaux-Arts architectural idiom in which they splendidly stood forth, after Chicago hosted the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the American-Negro Suite and said of it, `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music, these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest.

Their commitments are, for the most part, couched in a familiar idiom.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

Varlaam and Missail always appear together and often sing together, in a straightforward, rhythmically vigorous idiom that distinguishes them from the more subtle and well-educated Pimen.

The work's two movements, one melodically sentimental, the other brightly capricious, are clever enough in a Ravel-like style, but they rehash a wornout idiom.

The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed.

Although it serves as a rival to Confucianism, a school of active morality, this rivalry is compromised and given perspective by the idiom " practise Confucianism on the outside, Taoism on the inside.

The idiom ' between Scylla and Charybdis ' has therefore come to mean being between two dangers, choosing either of which will bring harm.

On the other hand, a few practitioners e. g. Quinlan Terry still work in a traditional classical idiom.

After numerous experiments, Munch concluded that the Impressionist idiom did not allow sufficient expression.

His idiom continued to veer between naturalistic, as seen in Portrait of Hans Jæger, and impressionistic, as in Rue Lafayette.

A disclaimer before the 1996 film Fargo makes the claim that it is based on a true story, but this was repudiated by its creators, the Coen brothers, saying that people would more readily believe something outlandish if told that it actually happened, per the " truth is stranger than fiction " idiom.

In the context of American slavery, this ancient sense of " down " converged with the concept of " down the river " ( the Mississippi ), where slaves ' conditions were notoriously worse, a situation which left the idiom " sell down the river " in present-day English.

" The language of the prayers, while clearly from the Second Temple period ( 516 BCE – 70 CE ), often employs Biblical idiom.

Brahms aimed to honour the " purity " of these venerable " German " structures and advance them into a Romantic idiom, in the process creating bold new approaches to harmony and melody.

Within his lifetime, his idiom left an imprint on several composers within his personal circle, who strongly admired his music, such as Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Robert Fuchs, and Julius Röntgen, as well as on Gustav Jenner, who was Brahms's only formal composition pupil.

Their early chamber works ( and those of Béla Bartók, who was friendly with Dohnányi ) show a thoroughgoing absorption of the Brahmsian idiom.

Since the 1970s Penderecki's style has changed to encompass a post-Romantic idiom.

In the 1940s, he began to take an interest in Schoenbergian Twelve-tone technique ; though he studied with Webern his own idiom was closer to Alban Berg.

" An example idiom is " Don't let the cat out of the bag " where the idiom is composed of " let the cat out of the bag " and that might be considered a semantic morpheme, which is composed of many syntactic morphemes.