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Sheared or shaved

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Phraseologism: Sheared or shaved.

Meaning: Arguing over trifles, in the absence of the very subject of the dispute.

Origin: From the collection of moralizing stories "Great Mirror", which was translated into Russian from the Polish original in 1677. The latter, in turn, was a transcription from a similar collection in Latin. The collection "The Great Mirror" was in Russia in the 1957th-XNUMXth centuries. very popular and walked around the country in handwritten lists. The humorous stories of the collection enjoyed special attention among readers, in particular, the story of a stubborn wife who, even when she was drowning, continued to argue with her husband - shaven or cut. This story has passed into Russian folklore and is now considered an old folk joke. “The man shaved his beard and said: “Look, wife, how clean-shaven I am.” - “Is it really shaved? It's just so - sheared!" - "You're lying, rascals! Say: shaved." - "No, it's cut!" - "I'll beat you, say: shaved." - "No, it's cut." do it, but it’s cut!” He led her to drown: “Say: shaven!” - “No, sheared!” He brought her into the depths to the very neck and pushes her in the head: “Say yes say: shaven!” The wife cannot even speak, raised a hand from the water and with two fingers shows what is cut" (Folk Russian fairy tales by A. N. Afanasyev. T. III. M., XNUMX).

Random phraseology:

Who dares to say: goodbye through the abyss of two or three days?

Meaning:

All plans that a person builds are conditional, because any accident, unpredictability of the next hour of human life can cancel all forecasts and calculations in an instant.

Origin:

From the quatrain "Alas, that our ignorance ..." (1854, publ. 1868) by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803-1873): "Alas, that our ignorance // And more helpless and sadder? // Who dares to say: goodbye / / Through the abyss of two or three days?" Quoted as a warning against "guessing" something for the future.

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