SHOOT SPARROWS FROM A CANNON
Wasting a lot of energy on trifles.
This implies a disproportion between the efforts expended and the results obtained. This means that a person or group of persons (X) makes great efforts to achieve goals that do not justify themselves. Spoken with disapproval or irony. speech standard. ? X shoots sparrows from a cannon.
The nominal part is unism.
Usually in the role of skaz.
The order of the component words is not fixed.
Imagine our disappointment when we ended up with approximately the same groups into which speech sounds are usually divided based on their physical properties.... So there you have it! It was worth shooting sparrows from mathematical guns! A. Zhuravlev, Sound and meaning. In simple cases, the action of the laws of social combinatorics is so obvious that it does not occur to people that there are any laws at work here at all, just like people who saw apples falling to the ground and even experienced them blows to my head, the thought of the laws of gravity did not occur to me. And even more so, in relation to such banal situations, it seems inappropriate to use highly philosophical words like “law”, “dialectics”, “opposites”, etc. - it’s like shooting sparrows from a cannon. A. Zinoviev, On the way to a supersociety.
The passage we are analyzing is part of a rather large episode with pilgrims who were swallowed by Gargantua along with the salad, but then safely escaped. This episode is really pointed against pilgrimage and against belief in the miraculous power of relics that relieve diseases (in this case, the plague).... All these motives and images have a broad universal meaning, and it would be absurd to think that they are all mobilized only for In order to ridicule the parasitism of pilgrims and their crude faith in relics, it would mean shooting sparrows from cannons. M. Bakhtin, The Work of Francois Rabelais and the Folk Culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
He was smart, soulless, empty, / Composing hollow, tight lines, / What he did and what he wanted - / It’s better to tell a lie than others. / And this, having spent so much effort, / All my life shooting at sparrows from cannons, / All Pinocchios, Matryoshkas and Parsleys, / Beloved ruined toys, / Reliably and godlessly taught. A. Mezhirov, Master.
Google introduced at the beginning of March a new technology for placing online advertising.... This has significantly increased the effectiveness of advertising, since in this case the advertiser does not shoot sparrows from cannons, working with interested users who are looking for information in the area in which it relates advertising. Journal of Russian America, 2003.
However, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, according to police colonel of the Main Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Anatoly Pascal, the fight against organized crime comes down only to the elimination of organized crime groups, that is, Konovalenko’s department hits the bottom, without affecting either the middle or the top of the pyramid indicated above. Figuratively speaking, he shoots sparrows from cannons. Krasnoyarsk Gambit, 2001.
There is an opinion that brains overloaded with information more often choose patterned paths and... shoot sparrows from cannons. This is especially true for such a formal, logical, algorithmic science as mathematics. V. Peklich, Memoirs on descriptive geometry.
I think you should end this conversation, it will lead nowhere. You talk in vain, you shoot sparrows from cannons. (Speech)
Of course, the official path is much simpler, and it may seem that we are shooting at a sparrow with a cannon. Just think, some guy in a white shirt! Is it worth starting such a complex combination for him? A. Adamov, Loop.
Shooting cannons at sparrows
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shooting sparrows from cannons that a waste of effort is obviously a lost cause. It means that someone's activity (p) obviously cannot bring a significant result. ? P - shooting sparrows from cannons. unism. Usually as a nominal part of a tale. or subject An assassination attempt for the purpose of ransom is a cheap hobby, shooting sparrows from heavy cannons, a thing of the past. A. Avdeenko, In the footsteps of the invisible. “Speaking of benefits,” Zhenya said angrily. - You, Yura, really like to talk about benefits. Meanwhile, there are unimaginably complex cyber-janitors, cyber-gardeners, cyber-fly-and-caterpillar-eaters, cyber-ham-and-cheese-sandwich-makers running around. After all, this is wild. This is not even shooting cannons at sparrows, as they used to say in our time. This is the creation of one-room individual apartments for ants. A. and B. Strugatsky, Return. Observers note that the inspection did not achieve its main goal, revealing only some of the violations, and the most obvious ones at that. The main accused were people who had previously been repeatedly involved in scandals, including land scandals. “We are firing cannons at sparrows, which will not bring any significant results,” Oleg Gabrielyan commented on the results of the inspection in Crimea. Business information agency "Context", 2003. cultural commentary: phraseology. in general, it is formed according to the model of expressions similar in meaning to a mosquito with a horn (to go), to run after a mosquito with an ax; You chase a fly with a butt; You can’t chase after every fly with your butt. (Melerovich A.M., Mokienko V.M. Phraseological units in Russian speech. M., 2001. P. 552.) Phraseological component. shooting correlates with the anthropic, i.e., cultural code associated with human life. The sparrow component correlates with the zoomorphic code of culture and acts as a stereotypical idea of small birds. The cannon component correlates with the artifactual material code of the culture. In the XVII-XVIII centuries. guns were the most powerful artillery piece, and therefore a formidable weapon. Image of phraseology. in general, it is perceived against the background of the opposition of two unequal “things” belonging to different spheres of life - military and everyday - which creates the effect of a pun. phraseol. in general acts as a stereotypical idea of a goal that does not correspond to the means of achieving it. Other European languages have similar figurative expressions; for example, in it. - mit Kanonen nach Spatzen schiessen. In Polish, the expression translated as shooting sparrows with a crossbow has been known since the 16th century. The examples given demonstrate the universality of this image.
With little birdie after birdie.
On a mosquito with a horn.
Wed. Instead of battles, often with an abusive spirit...
Chasing a fly with a butt.
We run after the mosquito with an axe,
I.S. Aksakov. "Weary forces."
Wed. We shouldn't use steam engine so that pick up a straw.
Book V.F. Odoevsky.
Wed. Magno jam conatu magnas nugas.
Big efforts for big trifles.
Terent. Heautont. 4, 18.
Cm. you chase a fly with your butt.
Cm. after a mosquito, not with an axe.
- - a common name for artillery pieces. In Europe, gunpowder appeared almost simultaneously with the invention of gunpowder. Already in 1342 they armed the Moorish fortress in Spain - Algediras...
Cossack dictionary-reference book
- - who Spend a lot of energy on trifles. This implies a disproportion between the efforts expended and the results obtained...
Phraseological Dictionary of the Russian Language
- - that it’s a waste of energy, obviously a lost cause. It means that someone's activities obviously cannot bring significant results. ✦ P - . unism. Usually as a nominal part of a tale. or subject...
Phraseological Dictionary of the Russian Language
- - who Spend a lot of energy on trifles. This implies a disproportion between the efforts expended and the results obtained...
Phraseological Dictionary of the Russian Language
- - who Spend a lot of energy on trifles. This implies a disproportion between the efforts expended and the results obtained...
Phraseological Dictionary of the Russian Language
- - Razg. Making extraordinary efforts for insignificant reasons. FSRY, 373; BMS 1998, 480...
- - Zharg. sport. . Iron. or Disapproved Shoot much higher than the goal. ...
Large dictionary of Russian sayings
- - With little birdie after birdie. On a mosquito with a horn. Wed. Instead of battles, often with a fighting spirit... We chase a fly with a butt. We run after the mosquito with an ax, I.S. Aksakov. "Tired forces"...
Mikhelson Explanatory and Phraseological Dictionary
- - Shoot sparrows from a cannon. With little birdie after birdie. On a mosquito with a horn. Wed. Instead of fighting, often with a fighting spirit... We chase a fly with a butt. We run after the mosquito with an axe. I. S. Aksakov...
Michelson Explanatory and Phraseological Dictionary (orig. orf.)
- - Simple. Express Absolutely right, on time. - At five o’clock in the morning, everyone should be on the field, like a cannon...
Phraseological Dictionary of the Russian Literary Language
- - see: On the ermine with the raid...
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IN AND. Dahl. Proverbs of the Russian people
- - Volg. Disapproved Sit back. Glukhov 1988, 127...
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- - without delay, exactly like clockwork, exactly like...
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