Simon Идиома

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simon

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Simon Legree|Legree|Simon

n., informal A strict person, especially a boss, who makes others work very hard. Don't talk on the job; the boss is a real Simon Legree. Everybody avoids the foreman. He acts like a Simon Legree.

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simon pure

simon pure
Absolutely genuine, quite authentic, as in That laboratory test was simon pure; none of the specimens was adulterated. This expression comes from the name of a character in a play, Susannah Centilivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717), who is the victim of an impersonation but turns up in the end and proves that he is “the real Simon Pure.”