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put your teeth on the shelf

Proverbs and sayings

Phraseologism: Put your teeth on the shelf.

Meaning: Feeling the need, limit oneself to the most necessary, starve, switch due to lack of material resources to a half-starved existence (jokingly).

Origin: There are two versions of the origin of the turnover. According to one of them, the expression does not mean someone's own or false teeth, which are put on the shelf as unnecessary. Teeth, teeth have many tools: saw, rake, pitchfork. There is work - a piece of bread is provided, no - put your teeth (i.e., tools) on the shelf and starve. Such "teeth" - the teeth were put on the shelf in the spring, when the hungry pre-sowing period began. However, according to another version, the expression still refers to human teeth. The image of teeth removed and put on a shelf is a vivid symbol of hunger.

Random phraseology:

The soul must work.

Meaning:

A call for constant work on oneself, for moral, spiritual self-improvement.

Origin:

From an untitled poem (1958) by the Soviet poet Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky (1903-1958): "Do not let your soul be lazy! // So that you do not crush water in a mortar, // The soul must work // And day, and night, and day, and night!"

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