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Get off your feet

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Phraseologism: Get off your feet.

Meaning: Work to the point of exhaustion.

Origin: It contains an anthropic, i.e. describing a person and/or his actions, metaphor, which is based on the symbolic function of the legs as the main "tool" with which a person moves in space and performs any activity. This metaphor also reflects the stereotypical idea of fussiness, the chaotic movement of the subject, which is created due to the verbal component to go astray / go astray, which belongs to the activity code of culture. In general, the phraseological unit plays the role of a standard, i.e., measures, fatigue from continuous troubles and fussy running around.

Random phraseology:

Pip on the tongue.

Meaning:

An unkind wish to someone who says the wrong thing.

Origin:

A pip is a small, horny bump on the tip of a bird's tongue that helps them peck at food. The growth of such a tubercle can be a sign of illness. Hard pimples on the human tongue are called pips by analogy with these bird bumps. According to superstitious ideas, a pip usually appears in deceitful people. Hence the unkind wish, which was included in the healer formulas-spells.

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