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Places not so remote

Russian empire

Phraseologism: Places are not so remote.

Meaning: Far from the center of the territory, places of exile (often ironic).

Origin: An expression from Russian legislation before 1917, in which this expression appeared as an official term. According to the law, exile to Siberia was of two types, which corresponded to a more severe and less severe type of punishment: the first was to send the offender "to remote places in Siberia", the second - "to not so remote places in Siberia." The wording has firmly entered the Russian language in the second half of the XNUMXth century. Later, these words began to be used as if by inertia - in relation to no longer exile, but to imprisonment.

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Sparrow night.

Meaning:

A short summer night with continuous thunderstorms or lightning.

Origin:

There are several versions of the origin of this expression. The first version says: according to ancient beliefs, in Belarus or in the Smolensk region, near the Assumption (August 15, old style) or between Ilyin's day and the Nativity of the Virgin (September 8, old style), a mountain ash night comes with a storm, thunder, lightning. In central Russia, such nights were called sparrow nights, but they were not associated with any specific date. The expressions mountain ash night and sparrow night are echoes of some cult-mystical constructions that correlated the cult of mountain ash and the cult of a sparrow with a thunderstorm, lightning, lightning, and therefore, apparently, with the ancient Slavic god of thunder in his most ancient incarnation, preceding Perun. According to the second version, this refers to a pockmarked (like a sparrow) night, when darkness is interspersed with lightning. On such nights, sparrows fly out of their nests, chirp anxiously, gather in flocks, etc. According to the third version, the original form of the combination was rowan night, i.e. "speckled, motley night" - a night with flashes of lightning, and most often with wind, storm, thunder. On the basis of the expression rowan night, later, as a result of folk etymological rethinking, a turnover was formed rowan night, and then sparrow night.

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