Liliputins in German -4961

Мit Snyder sind wir aus dem Schneider... "
Wladimir Selensky

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
http://stihi.ru/2021/11/24/7101


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Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

He has written several books, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, The Road to Unfreedom, and Our Malady. Several of them have been described as best-sellers.

Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.


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Die Redewendung "aus dem Schneider sein" stammt aus der Welt des Kartenspielens. Urspruenglich bedeutete "Schneider sein", dass man weniger als die Haelfte der Punkte hatte und somit gar nicht gut dastand. Wer verlor, war Schneider. Heute bedeutet "aus dem Schneider sein", dass man aus einer schwierigen Situation befreit ist und sich nun in einer g;nstigen Lage befindet.