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Fight windmills

Miguel de Cervantes

Phraseologism: Fight windmills.

Meaning: About the fight against imaginary, far-fetched obstacles.

Origin: The original source of the image is the novel (1615) "Don Quixote" by the Spanish writer Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra (1547-1616). The hero of the work, Don Quixote of La Mancha, takes the windmills for a detachment of knights and enters into battle with them with deplorable consequences for himself.

Random phraseology:

Give oak.

Meaning:

To die (roughly simple.).

Origin:

There are several versions of the origin of this expression. According to one of them, the turnover is associated with the verb zadubet "to cool down, lose sensitivity, become hard." Thus, the original meaning of the turnover is "to become motionless, like an oak tree, to straighten up, to grow cold." According to another version, the expression may be due to the fact that the dead were buried under the oak. The third version connects the origin of the expression with pagan rites: according to this hypothesis, the original form of turnover: "to give to the oak", that is, to make a sacrifice to the deity, it is known that the oak was the sacred tree of the thunder god Perun.

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