Abraham+Lincoln

Определение:
ИС //Abraham (Abe) Lincoln// выражает представление о серьезном, скромном, целеустремленном человеке,который умеет вести дела и обладает солидным внешним видом (как каждая характеристика в отдельности, так и все вместе). В сознании американцев имя //президента Линкольна// связано с образом бескорыстного, честного, преданного своей цели человека.

Origin:
//Abraham Lincoln// (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination. As president, he led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis—the American Civil War—preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization.

Происхождение:
//Авраам Линкольн// (12 февраля 1809 — 15 апреля 1865) — американский государственный деятель, 16-й президент США (1861—1865), первый президент от Республиканской партии, освободитель американских рабов, национальный герой американского народа.

Примеры:
Candidate Florio and his blonde wife, Lucinda, had no choice but to pose with the property developer from the Jersey waterfront before moving on past three mediocre belly-dancers, a man (on stilts) dressed up as //Abraham Lincoln// and an actor dressed up as Rip Van Winkle. (BNC)

Like the most famous of all American Presidents, Harry Truman came from the mid-West ; and he too had some of the qualities which contributed to the greatness of //Abraham Lincoln// -- honesty, courage and a willingness to accept responsibility. (BNC)

"Find out when the trial is set and get a lawyer down. A good one, and I mean a good one that'll know how to handle it... but don't get a guy that wants his name in lights... Get somebody looks like he didn't sing with a dance band..." "All right," I said, and wrote in my notebook, //Abe Lincoln// type (Warren R. P.).