Let the shoemaker judge no higher than the boot. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Let the shoemaker judge no higher than the boot

Apelles
Apelles

Phraseologism: Let the shoemaker judge no higher than the boot.

Meaning: Quoted as advice to critics to only speak their mind on matters they understand and not to judge what they are ignorant of.

Origin: From Latin: Ne sutor supra crepidam judicet. The words that, according to legend, the famous ancient Greek painter Apelles uttered in response to the remarks of an uninvited profane adviser. A. S. Pushkin ("The Shoemaker"): "The shoemaker once looked out for the picture // And he pointed out a mistake in the shoes, // Taking the brush immediately, the artist corrected himself. // Here, akimbo, the shoemaker continued: //" It seems to me that the face is a little crooked... // Isn't this chest too naked?"... // Here Apelles interrupted impatiently: // "Judge, my friend, not higher than a boot!""

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Man does not live by bread alone.

Meaning:

For a person to be completely happy, material well-being is not enough; he needs spiritual food, moral satisfaction.

Origin:

From the Bible (Old Testament, Deuteronomy, 8:3). Moses, calming his people, tired of the long return from Egyptian captivity, said that God did not in vain subject the people of Israel to such trials: “He humbled you, made you hungry and fed you with manna, which you did not know and your fathers did not know, in order to show you, that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord, man lives.” In the New Testament, in the Gospel of Matthew, this expression is also found. When Jesus was in the wilderness and kept a long fast (4:3-4), "the tempter came to Him and said: If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread. He said to him in response: it is written:" not bread man will live alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. "In modern Russia, the expression gained additional popularity after the publication (1956) of the novel "Not by Bread Alone" by Vladimir Dudintsev (1918-1998).

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