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The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

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Phraseologism: The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

Meaning: 1. About unselfishness, charity. 2. Regarding the confusion in the work of the state apparatus, institutions, when their bureaucratic links make decisions that contradict each other, give instructions that are opposite in meaning.

Origin: From the Bible. In the Gospel of Matthew (ch. 6, verses 2-4) it is said: "Therefore, when you do alms, do not blow your trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that people glorify them. Truly I say to you: they already receive your reward. But when you give alms, let your left hand not know what your right hand is doing. So that your alms may be in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly. Sometimes there is an old Slavic version of the expression: "May your shuytsa not know what the right right hand is doing." The meaning of the expression: if you do good deeds, then you should not be proud of them, count them, skimp on them, and, moreover, do them for show - good should be done for the sake of good itself, not for the sake of vanity.

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Xanthippe.

Meaning:

An angry, quarrelsome, absurd wife next to a calm, contemplative and contemplative husband (jokingly ironic).

Origin:

The name of the wife of the great philosopher of Ancient Greece Socrates, which has become a household name for a grumpy, quarrelsome wife who does not know how to appreciate the mind, talents, deeds of her husband. But documentary evidence about Xanthippe suggests otherwise. So, in the most authoritative source of information about the philosopher - "Memoirs of Socrates", written by his student Xenophon (c. 430-355 BC), - it is said that Xanthippe was a caring wife and selfless mother. And these memoirs do not contain any information about discord in the family of Socrates. Another student of Socrates, the great philosopher of Ancient Greece Plato (427-347 BC), tells how Xanthippe grieved, foreseeing the imminent death of her husband. The myth about the special quarrelsomeness of Xanthippe goes back to the composition "Feast" of the same Xenophon. But, unlike what he wrote about her in his memoirs, in this essay he calls Xanthippe "the most unbearable of women, not only at the present time, but also in the past and in the future." It also contains Socrates' answer to the question of the philosopher Antisthenes, who asked him why he married such an intolerable woman. Socrates allegedly answered: “I observe that people who want to become experienced riders choose not obedient, but hot horses. They are guided by this calculation: if they can curb a hot horse, then it will not be difficult for them to manage others. and I: wishing to be able to deal with people, I married Xanthippe, being sure that if I managed with her, it would be easy for me to communicate with all other people. This dialogue in the "Feast" is explained by the fact that Antisthenes, wishing to emphasize the wisdom of his teacher and the spiritual head of the Cynic philosophical school, specifically opposes Socrates to a person from a world hostile to the philosopher. It is no coincidence that after the appearance of the "Feast" in the philosophical schools of Greece, a new topic for rhetorical exercises was established - the comparative characteristics of Socrates and Xanthippe. During these exercises, the students had to invent dialogues between them, which completely distorted the image of the real wife of Socrates, who had nothing in common with this "philosophical", speculative Xanthippe.

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