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1 geschiedenis
2 [geschiedwetenschap, les, boek] history♦voorbeelden:dat is een andere geschiedenis • that's another storydat vermeldt de geschiedenis niet • the story doesn't sayde algemene/vaderlandse/oude/nieuwe geschiedenis • general/national/ancient/modern historywanneer hebben we geschiedenis? • when have we got history?de geschiedenis herhaalt zich • history repeats itselfde geschiedenis ingaan als … • go down in history as …geschiedenis maken/schrijven • make/write historyin de geschiedenis vermeld worden • be on record, be recordeddat behoort tot de geschiedenis • that is history3 een gekke/onaangename/oude/beroerde 〈enz.〉 geschiedenis • a silly/an unfortunate/an old/a nasty/ 〈enz.〉business/affair -
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3 allusion
an indirect reference, by word or phrase, to a historical, literary, mythological, biblical fact or to a fact of everyday life made in the course of speaking or writingNo little Grandgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow swallowed Tom Thumb; it had never heard of those celebrities (Ch.Dickens - Hard Times)
(The meaning that can be derived from the two allusions, one to the nursery rhyme "The House that Jack build" and the other to the old tale "The history of Tom Thumb")Source: I.R.G."Don't count your boobies until they are hatched"(J.Thurber)
See: set expressions, lexical SDsEnglish-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) > allusion
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