If only I knew, if only I knew. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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If only I knew, if I knew

Tolstoy A.K.

Phraseologism: If only I knew, if only I knew.

Meaning: It is used as an excuse for one's own hindsight, a wrong decision (joking, self-ironic).

Origin: From a Russian folk song in the author's arrangement of the poet Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875): "If I knew, if I knew, // I wouldn't look out of the window // I'm at the daring young man ..."

Random phraseology:

The earth, as it is, is plentiful, only there is no order.

Meaning:

1. On Russian domestic policy. 2. About people who cannot manage their own (social, industrial, etc.) life and hope for outside help.

Origin:

From Church Slavonic: Our land is great and plentiful, but there is no order in it, and go and rule over us. From the chronicle "The Tale of Bygone Years" by the ancient Russian chronicler, the largest historian of the Middle Ages, the monk of the Kiev-Pechersk monastery Nestor (XI-beginning of the XII century). So, according to his testimony, in 862 the Slavic ambassadors said to the Varangians from the Rus tribe, who had been expelled by the Slavs from the northeastern lands of present-day Russia shortly before. Referring to Nestor, the Russian historian Vladimir Solovyov in his work "The History of Russia from Ancient Times" (vols. 1, 4) wrote that after the expulsion of Russia (Varangians), the Slavic tribes themselves began to manage their lands, but "they owned badly, could not establish internal order: there was no truth between them, the chronicler continues, clan upon clan stood up, strife began. In such circumstances, the tribes gathered and said: "Let's look for a prince who would rule over us and judge by right." Having decided so, they went overseas , to the Varangians, to Russia, and they said to them: "Our land is great and plentiful, but there is no order in it: come reign and rule over us." Three brothers (Rurik, Sineus and Truvor. - Comp.) Gathered with their relatives, took with them all of Russia and came. As Nestor writes, these first Russian princes gave their name to these northeastern lands, which began to be called Rus or the Russian land: "And from those Varangians, the Russian land was nicknamed ..."

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