Times are not chosen, they live and die in them. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Times are not chosen, they live and die in them

Kushner A.S.

Phraseologism: Times do not choose, they live and die in them.

Meaning: There is no point in waiting for some "better times", which, as a rule, never come, but new difficulties appear already in new, "better" times, etc. Therefore, one must live here and now, because the past is no more, and the future is not yet has come.

Origin: The first line of an untitled poem (1976) by the Soviet poet Alexander Semenovich Kushner (b. 1936): "Times are not chosen, // They live and die in them, // There is more vulgarity in the world // There is nothing to beg and blame. // As if you can exchange them for these, // As in the market, // Whatever the age, the iron age. // But the wonderful garden smokes, // The cloud shines..."

Random phraseology:

Slavic debauchery.

Meaning:

About the lack of will, self-discipline, consistency in achieving one's goal, as well as the ability to set this goal for oneself (jokingly ironic).

Origin:

The expression was born in the camp of Russian Westernizers, when they conducted their well-known polemic with the Slavophiles. It became popular after I.S. Turgenev (1818-1883), who also considered himself a Westerner, used it in his story "Asya" (1858).

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