П210

МАМАЕВО ПОБОИЩЕ occas. humorNPsing onlyfixed WO
1. a heated, uncontrolled, and often violent quarrel or fight (in which one side clearly defeats the other)
brawl
fracas. Cf. donnybrook.
2. large-scale layoffs, dismissals, expulsions etc
mass firings (expulsions etc)
X устроил мамаево побоище X purged the place (the department etc).
Новый управляющий устроил настоящее мамаево побоище: уволил двух своих заместителей, заменил почти всех начальников отделов и вынудил главного инженера уйти на пенсию. The new director purged the place- he fired two of his assistant directors, replaced almost all of the department heads, and forced the chief engineer into retirement.
From the name of the Tartar khan Mamai, defeated by the Russians in 1380 on the Kulikovo Field.

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