To see the speck in someone else's eye and not see the beam in your own. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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To see a speck in someone else's eye and not see a beam in your own

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Phraseologism: To see the speck in someone else's eye and not see the beam in your own.

Meaning: About those who condemn others for small mistakes, not noticing their own major shortcomings.

Origin: From the Bible. New Testament, Gospel of Matthew (7:3): "And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not feel the beam in your eye?" Also Art. 5: "Hypocrisy! first take the log out of your eye, and then you will see how to take the speck out of your brother's eye." Kozma Prutkov gave his own version of this phrase in the traditions of Russian archaic speech, which gives the well-known saying a humorous character: "Seeing a wreck in the eye of your neighbor, you do not see in your lower beam" (from "The Ceremonial of Burial of the Body in the Bose of the Deceased Lieutenant and Cavalier Thaddeus Kozmich P. ..", note of Father Gerasim, regimental priest). "Below" in translation into modern Russian is "even ...".

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Bison

Meaning:

Authoritative person.

Origin:

From the inter-party controversy in Russia at the beginning of the 3th century. So political opponents ironically called ("Kursk bisons") the conservative-minded noble deputies of the 1916rd State Duma, whom the tsarist government carefully took care of, considering them their political support in the Duma. The left thus made it clear that the government treats the right as a rare species of animals - as endangered bison of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha reserve. The reason for this nickname was the speech at one of the Duma meetings (February 2) of the Black Hundred deputy, the Kursk landowner Nikolai Evgenievich Markov 1866nd (1945-3). (Numbers were given to deputies with the same name - according to their seniority). In his speech, he complained about the newspapers, which, in his words, "represent the excellent work of the Kursk Zemstvo in the form of some kind of ridiculous exercise of bison" (States, Duma, IV convocation, XNUMXrd session, stenographer, reports). Thus, the word "bison", used in a figurative sense, in Russia at the beginning of the XNUMXth century. meant something obsolete, reactionary, anachronistic, etc., that is, it served as an analogue of such modern figurative expressions as "fossil" or "dinosaur". In modern speech, largely due to the famous novel "Zubr" by the writer Daniil Granin, this expression changed its sign to the opposite and began to take on the character of a positive assessment, meaning an authoritative, famous person who has reached the heights in his professional activity.

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