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Goof

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Phraseologism: Goof.

Meaning: Get into a difficult, awkward or funny situation.

Origin: In trouble, according to some etymologists, it may be related to "sak", as well as German. "Sackgasse" - "dead end". Others believe that prosak is a spinning mill, a large rope loom. It was both dangerous and stupid to get into it while weaving ropes, since only a very careless and inattentive person could not notice the ropes twisted on it. V. I. Dal explains: “Prosak is the space from the spinning wheel to the sleigh, where the twine scurries and spins .. if you get there with the end of your clothes, with your hair, it will twist and you won’t pull yourself out, that’s where the saying comes from.” We used to meet and the combinations will be in a mess, I got into a great mess. But after the original meaning of the word prosak was forgotten, the combination in prosak turned into an adverb and is now used only in a stable combination (phraseologism) "get into a mess", which has been known since the beginning of the XNUMXth century.

Random phraseology:

Only the dead don't come back.

Meaning:

A person, while he is alive, can regain what he owned before.

Origin:

The words of Bertrand Barere (1755-1841), a leader of the French Revolution, nicknamed "Anacreon (that is, the poet) of the guillotine", his speech in the Convention of May 26, 1794: "If the troops commanded by Ushar had destroyed all the English, instead of to poison our fortresses with their presence, then England would not encroach on our borders this year. Only the dead do not return. But kings and their servants are incorrigible. They must disappear if you want lasting peace, if you want freedom to flourish" . On June 16 of the same year, he repeated these words in a speech against the counter-revolutionaries: "No, no, let the enemies die! I already said once that only the dead do not return." Barer's expression became popular thanks to Napoleon I. In 1816, already in exile on the island of St. Helena, he said about his overly strict, in his opinion, security, organized by the British: the only way to get rid of the fear that he will run away is - is to destroy it, for "only the dead do not return."

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