You can’t break a butt with a whip. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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You can't break a butt with a whip

Proverbs and sayings

Phraseologism: You can’t beat the whip with your butt.

Meaning: It is useless to fight with a stronger side, it is useless to do anything, the expended strength will go to waste.

Origin: Butt - the blunt side of a sharp tool (usually an ax), opposite the blade. The origin of the expression is associated with skirmishes between coachmen and attacking robbers: the whip is with the coachman, the ax is with the robber. The image is based on the opposition of a flexible whip to a solid metal butt.

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Crawl like a plastunsky.

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Crawl on your elbows without taking your body off the ground.

Origin:

Scouts - military scouts of the Cossack army of the New Zaporizhzhya (Kuban) Sich. During the hostilities, the scouts, hiding in the reeds, watched the actions of the enemy for hours. For this ability to lie flat for a long time, they were called scouts.

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