When we use well-known catchphrases in our speech, for example from literary classics or popular films, we often do not even finish them. Firstly, most often we see from the face of the interlocutor that we read the same books and watched the same films, and it is clear to us that we understood each other. Secondly, many phrases are so recognizable to everyone that the second half of them has not been said for a long time. But another generation will come and will think that all wisdom is only in this short phrase, not knowing about its understatement, losing the original meaning! This happened with many sayings and proverbs. We pronounce them, thinking that their meaning is clear to us from the cradle, but... Apparently, our ancestors also did not bother to finish them, leaving us as a legacy only their first halves...
Let's try to look for the original meaning by returning the endings to the proverbs. Let's start with proverbs that have lost only part of their meaning: everything seems to be correct, but something is missing, something is unsaid.
Hunger is not my aunt won't bring you a pie.
Don’t open your mouth to someone else’s loaf, Get up early and start your own business.
Take it out and put it down; give birth, give it to me.
Small spool but precious; The stump is large and rotten.
Young people scold and amuse themselves, and the old people scold and rage.
Everything is clear with these proverbs - there is only some inconsistency in them, and the returned part strengthens the meaning of folk wisdom. It is more difficult with those proverbs and sayings, the meaning of which has completely changed with the loss of their second part!
How often have we heard from adults in childhood: "In a healthy body healthy mind!"? It seems that the meaning is beyond doubt, and we repeat the same thing to our children, for example, forcing them to do morning exercises. But originally it sounded like this: “A healthy mind in a healthy body is a rare occurrence.” That's exactly what he wrote Decimus Junius Juvenal, Roman satirist poet, in his Satires. This is what it means to take words out of context, which many people abuse nowadays. The meaning, it turns out, was completely different!
The drunken sea is knee-deep– it’s clear that a drunk person doesn’t care about anything, but in reality? The drunken sea is knee-deep, and the puddle is head over heels.
Crazy room! This means he is a very smart person, and his opinion is worth listening to. What if we return the ending? Uma chamber, yes the key is lost!
Repetition is the mother of learning! Well, what other meaning could there be? And you ask Ovid, these are his words: "Repetition is the mother of learning" and the refuge of donkeys (the comfort of fools).”
The meaning of many proverbs without their missing part is completely unclear! Why would this be said: “ Lucky, as a drowned man". But if you restore the entire text, then everything will fall into place:
How lucky Saturday to the drowned man - There is no need to heat the bathhouse! So luck is only on the side of those who drowned on Saturday - they won’t have to heat the bathhouse, saving money on the household!
The chicken pecks at the grain - that is, every task is done little by little , but return the ending and everything will appear in a different light . The chicken pecks at the grain , and the whole yard is covered in droppings!
As soon as new management appears at work and begins innovations, someone is sure to say: “A new broom sweeps in a new way!” But the whole point is in the second half: “A new broom sweeps in a new way, and when it breaks, it’s lying under the bench.”
When, for example, previously unknown like-minded people meet, who are passionate about the same thing or people of the same profession, they say : "Birds of a feather flock together". But in reality it was: "Birds of a feather flock together, That’s why he avoids it.” After all, where one is already fishing, the other has nothing to do!
Here are still unknown endings to famous proverbs.
Grandmother [ I was wondering] said in two [ Either it’s raining or it’s snowing, or it’s going to happen, or it’s not].
Poverty is not a vice [ and twice as bad].
A raven will not peck out a crow's eye [ and he’ll peck it out, but won’t pull it out].
It was smooth on paper [ Yes, they forgot about the ravines, and walk along them].
Goal like a falcon [ and as sharp as an ax].
Hunger is not my aunt [ won't bring you a pie].
Lip no fool [ tongue is not a shovel].
Two of a Kind [ yes both left].
Girlish shame - to the threshold [ stepped over and forgot].
The master's work is afraid [ and another master of the matter].
Road spoon for dinner [ and there at least under the bench].
At least a fool has some fun [ he puts his two].
For a beaten two unbeaten they give [ it doesn't hurt to take it].
If you chase two hares, not a single one [ wild boar] you won't catch it.
The hare's legs are [ The wolf's teeth are fed, the fox's tail is protected].
[AND] matter of time, [ And] fun time.
A mosquito won't knock down a horse [ until the bear helps].
Whoever remembers the old is out of sight [ and whoever forgets - both].
The hen pecks at the grain [ and the whole yard is covered in droppings].
Down and Out trouble started [ there is a hole, there will be a hole].
Young people scold and amuse themselves [ and the old people scold and rage].
Don’t open your mouth to someone else’s loaf [ get up early and get started].
Every day is not Sunday [ there will be a post].
The woodpecker is not sad that he cannot sing [ the whole forest can already hear him].
Alone in the field is not a warrior [ and the traveler].
The horses are dying from work [ and people are getting stronger].
A double-edged sword [ hits here and there].
Repetition is the mother of learning [ consolation for fools].
Repetition is the mother of learning [ and a refuge for lazy people].
The drunken sea is knee-deep [ and the puddle is head over heels].
Dust in a column, smoke in a rocker [ but the hut is not heated, not swept].
Grow big, [ Yes] don't be a noodle [ stretch a mile, don't be easy].
If you get along with the bee, you'll get some honey [ If you get in touch with a beetle, you'll end up in manure].
Seven troubles - one answer [ eighth problem - nowhere at all].
Dog in the manger [ lies there, doesn’t eat on her own and doesn’t give it to the cattle].
An old horse won't ruin the furrow [ and it won’t plow deep].
Fear has big eyes [ they don't see anything].
Uma chamber [ yes the key is lost].
Bread on the table - and the table is the throne [ and not a piece of bread - and a table].
Miracles in a sieve [ there are a lot of holes, but nowhere to jump out].
Sewn-covered [ and the knot is here].
My tongue is my enemy [ before the mind prowls, seeks troubles].
Lucky, as a drowned man to whom. Simple Iron. Someone is haunted by constant failures. - Do you read newspapers? Rolling is lucky as a drowned man(A. N. Tolstoy. Hyperboloid of engineer Garin). - Captivity, perhaps, did you remember? You're lucky, dad, like a drowned man! I immediately caught the bullet!.. Come on, dad, crawl back! Stay close to the ground, otherwise it will add more. To the rear, dad! There they will do the dressing. Rewind!(Yu. Bondarev. Hot snow).
Phraseological dictionary of the Russian literary language. - M.: Astrel, AST. A. I. Fedorov. 2008.
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They say: “Lucky as a drowned man.” How and why is he lucky? and got the best answer
Answer from Grandfather[guru]
They say: “Lucky as a drowned man.” How and why is he lucky?
This is not a full phrase, but an abbreviated version of it... So the meaning has been lost over time... Like: “Suddenly a bandy-legged and lame man runs out of my mother’s bedroom...” Anyone introduces himself, but not the Washbasin.
The full phrase looks like this:
I was as lucky as the drowned man on Saturday: I didn’t have to heat the bathhouse.
Well, everything immediately became full of meaning.
Source: The lucky ones are lucky!
Answer from Tamop[guru]
he has no luck in anything, he is a drowner.
This, in fact, is the meaning of this saying.
Answer from Andrey Nikolaevich[guru]
The paradox lies in this (no luck)
Answer from Walter Vzhopekrabov[guru]
Stupid question given the current heat.
Answer from Omniy Dofiga[guru]
And they also say that a saddle suits you like a cow.
Answer from Artem Tolkech[newbie]
yeah
Answer from Lydia Brodskaya[guru]
This means that you are as unlucky as a drowned man!
Answer from Vika Turbina[guru]
My opinion: he's a drowner and doesn't complain about anything. Life is over, you can relax - so to speak.
Answer from Alexander Nikolaevich Krinitsky[guru]
They're all smart, damn it! And there’s nothing to add! What, is he an alien? You don't know simple things! Or are you testing people for stupidity?
Answer from Roxana MaKedonskaya[guru]
The word “lucky” should be written in quotation marks, then everything will be clear!
Answer from Inna =)[guru]
just the opposite, he's unlucky
Answer from Dmitry Volzhanin[guru]
Of every ten who entered the Dnieper for Baptism, only nine emerged. The current was strong. How can one not understand that these drowned men were terribly lucky (hence the expression “lucky as a drowned man”). As soon as they were baptized, they died. This means that they went to the Judgment of God completely sinless. Like babies. And now they taste eternal bliss in paradise, while we suffer on mortal earth.
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When you're lucky as a drowned man
Luck is generally a vague, indefinite quality that some objects possess and which they can transfer to their owners. Luck seems to exist in the air around us, sometimes helping a person, sometimes avoiding him, and sometimes responding to a call. Luck is a certain quality that is possessed by some individuals (“those born in a shirt,” like Sergei Mavrodi or Mikhail Khodorkovsky) or peoples (for example, “the luck of the Irish” is a clearly unfounded superstition, given the history of Ireland, or “black luck” is an evil popular belief). irony about American black plantation workers).
By the way, luck is not the same as chance: chance gives us an alternative, and luck depends on our choice. Luck, which we can sometimes control or try to control, guides us through the countless choices that confront us throughout life. A non-superstitious person tries to arrange his life so that chance or chance plays a minimal role in it; a superstitious person blindly believes in luck. It is not for nothing that luck is anthropomorphically represented as a capricious lady riding on a wheel: we feel that she behaves towards us like a capricious woman; we try to understand her and dominate her, but she reveals herself to be extravagant, whimsical, capricious and completely irrational. Nevertheless, it may well come when we desperately need it, if, of course, we are moderately lucky.
But the unreliable nature of luck does not stop its fans, who must be not only undying optimists, but also fatalists. That's why they need more and more new ways to communicate with her. All these superstitious methods and techniques almost without variations take one of three forms.
First form - omen, i.e., signs and warnings, thanks to which we seem to know that if such and such happens, then we should expect such and such. Faith in omens is faith in a foregone future; it is completely fatalistic - that is, some special cause always automatically causes a special effect. Finding a pin on the ground is a harbinger of good luck, and picking up someone's dropped coin means taking on that person's problems. If your ear itches, this is a sign of failure, and if your nose itches, expect guests. If a dog runs into your house, this is a good sign; if a bird flies in - terrible. A fallen dish sponge portends a pleasant surprise or a guest. If you stumbled at the beginning of a journey or the beginning of a new venture, this is a bad sign. And so on and so forth. Sometimes there are techniques that you can use to prevent an undesirable consequence if you are facing failure. But this is already a battle between magic and magic; it is unreliable; no one will be surprised if such attempts do not help you.
Second form - taboo: You cannot say certain words or perform certain actions, otherwise the disease will supposedly fall on you in a special form or in the form of an ordinary evil fate. Taboos are an integral part of ancient primitive supernatural beliefs; they prohibit certain actions that could provoke evil spirits or certain non-human magical entities that control every aspect of the life of the native tribes. Without a strong taboo, these entities would inevitably attack the offender, and his entire tribe. The taboos of more modern superstitions do not mention evil spirits, but they indicate that bad fate is an omnipresent thing, although it is out of sight. She is just waiting to catch up with a careless person - who, for example, carelessly walked under the stairs, opened an umbrella indoors, made a vain reference to the devil, stepped on a crack in the sidewalk, or returned a handshake with his left hand. Sometimes taboos, like evil omens, can be neutralized by a quick and positive magical action (for example, spilling salt and quickly throwing a pinch of it over the left shoulder), but again such counteraction is often performed out of hope rather than in line with a specific expectation.
Sometimes people try to warn a person who breaks a taboo by showing on his body where his friend had the disease. “Don’t show it on yourself!” – we warn, thereby wanting to protect our interlocutor from an impending illness.
Third form - rituals . The term is used here to refer to actions that may be performed to produce particularly desired effects, to avoid failure, or to ensure success. Crossing the fingers is the most familiar method for warding off evil (forming a cross naturally wards off demons); On birthdays, children making a wish over candles inserted into a cake or looking at the first star of the evening are all typical examples of a positive ritual.
The dominant role of magic in popular belief is clearly visible in the use of magic in many traditionally magical objects and substances.
For centuries, the occult arts - witchcraft, sorcery, fortune telling, etc. - endowed certain aspects of the natural world with special powers (to the primitive mind, of course, every aspect of the environment contained this almost transcendental power, which man “turned on” at will.) We we can see numerous uses for salt - a substance necessary in everyday life, but in ancient times often difficult to obtain and therefore used in many rituals of primitive magic.
It was believed that cold iron (and in our times steel) had its own magical powers - mainly used for good, because witches and demons were supposedly mortally afraid of it.
Of all four elements of matter in the ancient world, fire had the strongest supernatural associations and was involved in rituals to attract good luck and ward off bad luck. Various numbers, like colors, were endowed with magical meaning, and some plants and animals were the most important aspects for the implementation of witchcraft and for the fulfillment of folk superstitions. It was believed that some stones, trees and many metals had miraculous powers.
The moon and, to a lesser extent, the sun and stars have always occupied their very strong place in superstitions and even more so in astrology. Superstitions are superstitions, but we owe the abnormally dry summer of 2010 to the overzealous action of a “star called the Sun.” It becomes obvious that he got excited for a reason, obviously something prompted him to do this, and this tells us that the location of the stars in the sky means something.
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Why do they say: “Lucky as a drowned man”? What is the luck of someone who goes to another world? This is an interesting question. We will reveal this secret today. We will also discuss the use of the expression in everyday speech.
It will be difficult for a foreigner to understand
The expression “Lucky as a drowned man” will probably be difficult to explain to a foreigner. Because one thing is written, but the opposite phenomenon is assumed.
For example, a man went out without an umbrella because he saw that the weather was good outside, but while he was at work or in the store, it began to rain so much that the biblical flood would envy its strength. Naturally, our hero was lucky as a drowned man, that is, he was completely at odds with luck.
In other words, this expression means the extreme degree of unluckiness.
Even a Russian finds it difficult to recognize the meaning of the saying.
Because it's pretty vague. Most folk expressions, whose authorship has been lost, are absorbed by Russian speakers almost with mother’s milk, without thinking about why this or that form of wisdom was chosen. For example, why do they say “lucky as a drowned man”? And indeed, no matter how much you think, it’s impossible to understand what benefit the drowned man has.
And everything is explained simply. It's all about the full version of the saying. Here it is: “Lucky as a drowned man on Saturday - there’s no need to heat the bathhouse!” That is, it turns out that the benefit of the deceased is purely economic in nature. We used to swim once a week, guess what day? That is why the drowned person no longer needs bath procedures.
M. A. Berlioz and his “luck”
Naturally, the saying can be used when a person finds himself in a complex misfortune. For example, an employee managed not only to be late, but also to meet his boss on the way to his workplace. But just a week ago, the newly minted truant assured that he was dutiful and obliging and had never been late in his life - a standard story. In other words, he was as lucky as a drowned man.
But we never tire of remembering the well-known classics. The chairman of MASSOLIT, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Berlioz, comes to mind. Of course, one can attribute what happened to him after his meeting with Woland at the Patriarch's Ponds to the power of the prince of darkness. But if we ignore this idea, imagine how many things came together for Berlioz to fall under a tram. He met the professor, got very excited, ran to call, at that time “Annushka had already spilled the oil”... And, finally, the fatal meeting of oil and Berlioz. Isn't a famous character suitable to illustrate the expression "lucky as a drowned man"? Let the reader decide for himself. Our job is to offer a possible option that would facilitate understanding.
This is how the consideration of the saying ended. “Lucky as a drowned man” was in the area of our special attention. We wish everyone never to encounter this kind of “luck”.