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They work, and you eat their work

Sumarokov A.P.

Phraseologism: They work, and you eat their work.

Meaning: It is used as a form of censure, reproach against all kinds of loafers who live off the labor of others.

Origin: From the parable (fable) "Beetles and Bees" (c. 1750) by playwright and satirist Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (1717-1777). The parable says that some "ignorant Beetles crawled into the sciences" and began to teach the Bees to make honey (as the author writes, "molasses", which in his time was a synonym for honey). The bees complained to Apollo - the god of art, science and crafts. Apollo descended from Parnassus "And Zhukov // He drove everyone out, // He said:" My friends, go to the manure from here, // They work, and you eat their work, // Yes, you harm with miserly and molasses!" Phrase became widely known thanks to the writer-educator Nikolai Novikov, who used it as the motto of his satirical journal Truten (1769).N. I. Novikov considered Sumarokov's parables (he wrote 378 fables) "the treasure of Russian Parnassus."

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