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).
From the name of the Tartar khan Mamai, defeated by the Russians in 1380 on the Kulikovo Field.
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П211 →← П21