Napoleon's Frog

Шуткой острой любил граф Кутузов Подразнить отступавших французов. «Бонапарт Напольон Съел с лягушкой бульон». Выдал как-то экспромтом Кутузов.

А. Дубровский, 2011

Prince Kutuzov liked to tease the retreating French with the acute joke. "Napoleon Bonaparte ate the soup with the frog. " Once he said impromptu. (makeshift translation of A. Dubrovski's poem).

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Burning the midnight oil

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, By the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.

E.Lear, 1846

You won't catch me!

There was an Old Man of the North, Who fell into a basin of broth; But a laudable cook, Fished him out with a hook, Which saved that Old Man of the North.

E.Lear, 1846