Warm the snake on the chest (in the bosom). Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Warm the snake on the chest (in the bosom)

Aesop
Aesop

Phraseologism: Warm the snake on the chest (in the bosom).

Meaning: To show attention, care, love for a person who later pays with ingratitude (disapproved).

Origin: There are two versions of the origin of this turnover: 1) an expression - from an ancient Greek parable about a farmer who found a frozen snake and put it in his bosom. Having warmed up, she stung her savior. The parable has another version: the peasant finds a snake egg, puts it in his bosom, where it was warmed by his warmth and a snake hatched from it, which immediately stung the savior. The parable was put by Aesop in the basis of the fable "The Peasant and the Snake". La Fontaine borrowed this plot from Aesop, and thanks to La Fontaine, the expression turned into a proverb known to European languages. Wed English "cherish (nourish, warm) serpent (snake) in one "s bosom", French r "echauffer (nourir) un serpent dans (sur) son sein", German "eine Schlange am Busen nahren and others" in Russian language, it appears in the 2th century thanks to translations of Molière's comedies, 300) the Russian expression warmed the snake in the bosom, as well as its playful version fed the snake on its neck and the abusive combination zapazuchnaya snake - "ungrateful and treacherous person", goes back to ancient Greek sources. the expression is found in the Apostle and Plutarch, who, if he wrote anything similar, was obviously under the influence of Aesop's famous fable.Aesop was considered a contemporary of Solon, and the first written statement of his fables was made XNUMX years BC. among Roman writers we find a well-established saying, for example, in Cicero: "in sinu - viperam venenatam ac pestiferam habere. " The Russian proverb, however, is closer to the original source, cf. Phaedrus: "colubram - sinu fovit".

Random phraseology:

Swap a cuckoo for a hawk.

Meaning:

Choose the worst from the bad, act imprudently, thoughtlessly (folk iron.).

Origin:

The expression goes back to Slavic ideas about the seasonal transformation of a cuckoo into a hawk. According to mythology, the hawk is the receptacle of an evil soul. Wed the lost meaning of the word cuckoo "sinister person".

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