young barbarians

young barbarians
"юные варвары" (прозвище студентов-бездельников, отпрысков аристократических фамилий) [выражение создано Дж. Г. Байроном: There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother - he their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday. (‘Childe Harold’, canto IV)]

Admitting his intellectual superiority, the young barbarians expected him to pay for their admiration by amusing them... (A. Huxley, ‘Eyeless in Gaza’, ch. X) — Признавая его умственное превосходство, даже восхищаясь им, юные варвары считали, что их отношение к нему должно быть вознаграждено: он обязан их развлекать...


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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