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After the rain on Thursday

Proverbs and sayings

Phraseologism: After the rain on Thursday.

Meaning: It is not known when, never (joking).

Origin: It is believed that this expression is due to the fact that in the old days Thursday was dedicated to Perun, the god of thunder and lightning. Prayers were offered to him for rain, especially during a drought. People believed that he should be most willing to fulfill requests on "his" day, Thursday. And since these requests often remained unfulfilled, Christians began to be rather skeptical of this deity and, convinced of the futility of such prayers, expressed with this phrase their complete distrust of the god Perun.

Random phraseology:

And one warrior in the field.

Meaning:

Encouragement of someone's personal efforts (joking).

Origin:

The title of the novel (1886) by the Russian populist writer Grigory Alexandrovich Machtet (1852-1901), which is a polemical version of the well-known Russian proverb "One man is not a warrior." The novel (originally titled From the Irrevocable Past) is devoted to the relationship between peasants and landlords in the Russian countryside. In Soviet times, the expression again became very popular thanks to the novel "And One Warrior in the Field" (1956) by the Soviet Ukrainian writer Yuri Dold-Mikhailik (1903-1966). The novel was first published in Russian in 1957 and was repeatedly reprinted (only until 1960, 5 times in Ukrainian, 10 in Russian). In 1959, the author, together with G. Tkachenko, wrote a play of the same name, which was staged in many theaters of the country and filmed.

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