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Not cattle, not a tree, not a slave, but a man!

Radishchev A.N.

Phraseologism: Not cattle, not a tree, not a slave, but a man!

Meaning: It is cited as a formula for affirming human and civic dignity.

Origin: From a poem written by Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev (1749-1802) on his way to exile in the Ilim prison, to which he was sentenced by Catherine II for his pamphlet book Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790): "Do you want to know: who am I "What am I? Where am I going? // I am the same as I was and will be all my life: // Not cattle, not a tree, not a slave, but a man!"

Random phraseology:

Something has overgrown.

Meaning:

Long forgotten, erased from memory (that is irretrievably gone).

Origin:

There are two versions of the origin of this turnover. According to one of them, a phraseologism arose by implying more detailed sayings: You never know what happened, but it has grown. It was yes passed, yes it was overgrown. Words consonant with each other are played out in them: the verb to be and the collective noun past "grass, blade of grass". The word past is formed from the verb to be, but not in its modern sense, but in its more ancient meaning - "grow, grow." The saying It was, but it was overgrown with past, there is an option without the word past: It was, but overgrown with grass. However, there is another version: this phraseologism was formed not by implicating sayings, but on the basis of a combination of overgrown (overgrown) with past, i.e. "overgrown with grass (about a path, garden, etc.)". Grass grows in abandoned, forgotten places.

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