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ДЕНЬГИ НЕ ПАХНУТ often

  • 1 деньги не пахнут

    [sent; pres only; fixed WO]
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    ⇒ it does not matter that the money in question has been obtained by unseemly means or from unsavory sources:
    - money has no smell.
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    ← Loan translation of the Latin pecunia non olet. According to the Roman biographer Suetonius (Vespasian, XXIII, 3), the emperor Vespasian (1st cent. A. D.) introduced a tax on public lavatories. When his son Titus objected to this tax, he held a coin to Titus' nose and asked whether it smelled. Hearing that it did not, the emperor replied, "Yet it's made from urine."

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  • 2 Д-170

    ДЕНЬГИ HE ПАХНУТ often disapprov (sent pres only fixed WO
    it does not matter that the money in question has been obtained by unseemly means or from unsavory sources
    money has no smell.
    Loan translation of the Latin pecunia поп olet. According to the Roman biographer Suetonius (Vespasian, XXIII, 3), the emperor Vespasian (1 st cent. A. D.) introduced a tax on public lavatories. When his son Titus objected to this tax, he held a coin to Titus' nose and asked whether it s me lied. Hearing that it did not, the emperor replied, "Yet it's made from urine."

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