(interjection) 1. "wow, that's old." 2a. "wow, the more things change the more they stay the same." b. "wow, the more things stay the same, the more they change." (a one-word "plus зa change, plus c'est la mкme chose" & "plus зa la mкme chose, plus c'est changee.") (from the etymology of the word "adobe": middle Egyptian *djobet > Coptic 'tob' > Arabic 'al tub' > later Arabic 'attub' > Spanish 'adobe' and so into English. Each of these terms means or meant 'mud brick'---Pharaoh, for example, demanded that the Israelites provide 'djobet'---this word's been around for nearly three-and-a-half millennia, changing form somewhat (though not much), but always meaning the same thing.)
Примеры использования:
"It's been twenty-three years, but I've kept the old club house just as it was." "Adobe!, it feels smaller, somehow."
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