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There is nothing behind the soul

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Phraseologism: There is nothing behind the soul.

Meaning: 1. About a poor, penniless person. 2. About an absolutely soulless person.

Origin: This expression is actually Russian. The soul here is understood as a depression between the collarbones, a dimple on the neck above the sternum, where, according to popular beliefs, the human soul was placed (cf. the soul wide open). In the same place on the chest ("behind the soul") there was a custom to keep money.

Random phraseology:

Marilov. Manilovshchina.

Meaning:

About fruitless projects, unrealistic plans and about empty, idle daydreaming in general.

Origin:

Manilov is one of the heroes of N.V. Gogol's poem "Dead Souls", part 1, ch. 2 (1842), a landowner, sugary-sweet in dealing with his family and guests, a sentimental, fruitless dreamer. "Sometimes, looking from the porch at the yard and the pond, he would say how nice it would be if all of a sudden to lead an underground passage from the house or build a stone bridge across the pond, on which there would be shops on both sides, and so that in them merchants sat and sold various small goods needed by the peasants. At the same time, his eyes became extremely sweet and his face assumed the most contented expression, however, all these projects ended in only one word ... "

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