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Headlong

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Phraseologism: Headlong.

Meaning: About someone's very fast, rushing and reckless movement somewhere.

Origin: There are several versions of the origin of the turnover: 1) the expression is associated with an ancient belief: in order to protect oneself from evil spirits and the dangers associated with it, it was enough to draw a circle around oneself. This feature, spoken by a special prayer, acquired a magical property: the evil spirit had no power over a person outlined in such a circle. Old Russian warriors, entering into battle, outlined a magic circle above their heads with the end of the sword, protecting themselves from death. The expression came from this military rite, 2) the expression is the result of a contamination of turns around and headlong, 3) the saying was born in late Christian times and is associated with the custom of being baptized before serious work. Hurried people were baptized quickly, which visually resembled a circle around the head with three fingers.

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Time forward!

Meaning:

About the desire to speed up events, the work begun, the process, to be in the future as soon as possible, to see it ..

Origin:

From the poem "March of Time", which sounds in the 6th act of the drama "Bath" (1930) by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930). The expression became popular after the publication of the novel "Time, forward!" (1932) Soviet writer Valentin Kataev. Later, the Soviet composer Georgy Sviridov gave this name to his musical play, which was in the USSR for a long time as a musical intro to the informational television program "Vremya".

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