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Phraseologism: Cain.

Meaning: A common noun for a villain, murderer, traitor.

Origin: From the Bible. The Old Testament tells that Cain, the son of Adam and Eve, killed his meek brother Abel. This provoked the wrath of the Lord (Genesis 4:11-12): "And now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand, when you till the earth, it will no longer give its strength to you, you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth." Further it is said (4:15): "And the Lord made a sign to Cain, so that no one who met him would kill him," that is, he would not save him from the punishment imposed on him by God. The "sign" imposed on Cain by God also gave birth to the popular expression "Cain's seal" - a sign of an outcast, a symbol of rejection, ostracism, or an indelible stain of crime.

Random phraseology:

Freeze the worm.

Meaning:

Satisfy your hunger a little (joking).

Origin:

According to one version, this turnover is actually Russian and is associated with the idea of parasites in the intestines. According to another version, the expression is borrowed from Romance phraseology and is a tracing paper from the French "tuer le ver" - "drink a glass of alcohol on an empty stomach", literally "kill a worm" (the turnover is associated with a popular belief that by drinking alcohol on an empty stomach, you can get rid of worms ). However, the use in Russian of the verb "zamorit" to render the French "tuer" played an important role in the semantic transformation of the turnover: since some combinations of the verb "zamorit" are associated with the idea of hunger (cf.: "starve"), the original meaning is "drink a glass of alcohol on an empty stomach "became peripheral for the Russian language, and then disappeared altogether from use. Phraseologism to kill a worm has lost its semantic connection with its French prototype and has become a specific nationally colored idiom with the meaning "to have a light bite".

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