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1 ‘Little Jack Horner’
популярный детский стишок:Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb, and pulled out
a plum,
And said, ‘What a good boy am I!’
(Пер. Г. Кружкова)
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2 Jack Horner
самодовольный мальчик [выражение взято из детского стихотворения:Sat in a corner,Eating a Christmas pie;He put in his thumb,And he pulled out a plum,And said,‘What a good boy am I!’]...here and there there is a passage where we cannot refrain, for there is a smack of Jack Horner in all of us... (J. R. Lowell, ‘My Study Windows’, ‘A Great Public Character’) —...иногда в книге Эдмунда Куинси попадаются такие страницы, что критик не может устоять и цитирует их. Кто из нас не любит щегольнуть красным словцом?
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