OGPU
(also Ogpu)
An organization for investigating and combating counter-revolutionary activities in the former Soviet Union, existing from 1922 (1922-3 as the GPU) to 1934 and replacing the Cheka. It was absorbed into the NKVD in 1934.
Origin
Acronym from Russian Obʺedinënnoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie 'United State Political Directorate'.
- the birds and the bees
- the biter bitten (or bit)
- the Blessed Sacrament
- the Blitz
- the bloom is off the rose
- the Boat Race
- the body beautiful
- the Book of Psalms
- the Books of the Maccabees
- the boot (or shoe) is on the other foot
- the Border
- the Borders
- the bottom falls (or drops) out
- the Bourse
- the boy (or girl) next door
- the brass ring
- the bread of life
- the breath of life
- the buck stops here (or with someone)
- the Burse
- theca
- theca folliculi
- the Cairngorms
- the call of nature
- the calm before the storm