Gleb Shishmaryov (1781â1835), Russian admiral; Gleb Shulpyakov (born 1971), Russian writer; Gleb Strizhenov (1923â1985), Russian actor; Gleb Struve (1898â1985), Russian poet and literary historian; Gleb Svyatoslavich (Prince of Chernigov) (1168â1215), Rus' prince; Gleb Uspensky (1843â1902), Russian writer; Gleb Wataghin (1899â1986), Italian scientist
3. Tongue-in-cheek. Tongue-in-cheek is a term used to refer to humor in which a statement is not meant to be taken seriously, but its lack of seriousness is subtle. Nonetheless beware of jackasses trying to use it as an out-of-jail card sometimes when they fuck up and say some' stupid they really meant.
I don't mean that they had their tongues in their cheeks or did anything vulgar, for that was not one of their dangers: I do mean, on the other hand, that the element of the unnamed and untouched became, between us, greater than any other, and that so much avoidance could not have been so successfully effected without a great deal of tacit arrangement.