To become a "winged" phrase should fundamentally take root in people's mouths.And this happens only when it is clearly and succinctly reflect any event or occasion.So there is a saying "The still waters run deep."
meaning sayings
statements idea is not all that seems still and quiet, in fact, it is not.Somewhere deep and invisible dark passions are boiling and maturing unclear danger sinister plans.Most often, this saying refers to a person.Until then, he is quiet and modest, educated and secretive.But there comes a time when "the quiet one" unexpected and suddenly commits bad deeds.The saying "The still waters run deep" is intended, therefore, to warn about the possible unpleasant surprises that can give a person a flawless outward behavior.
Hidden Power of the pool
Folk wisdom, took shape in the Russian proverb, originally appeared in the Russian environment and reflects local realities.Firstly, a whirlpool - that is a deep pit hidden in the bottom of the pond, found in rivers and lakes, but not in the seas and oceans.Whirlpool most often results from a whirlpool, born over the counter.The sinister power of the pool is determined by the apparent tranquility.Secondly, in the still waters run deep, according to the popular Russian legend of evil.If you look at the associative array, called word maelstrom, we see the gloomy and mysterious picture.This is - open, fear, rapids, water, driftwood, dark, cold abyss, danger, death.According to legend, in the whirlpools of otherworldly beings live male who take a wife or a witch drowned.Damn the family, as the legend, the night can get out of the pool and replace human infants on their imps.
Why still waters run live
This belief that water living hell, possibly due to the biblical story of Jesus casting out demons from people, commanded evil spirits enter into the swine herd, which is then thrown into the water.There are sources that claim and that the deep waters as the home of evil spirits were known back in the pagan, pre-Christian times.Today, however, researchers of anomalous phenomena, too, will tell a lot of stories about what some modern lakes and ponds "Glory" in that it saw devils.And there is, according to them, because at the bottom of the reservoir may be located entrances to parallel worlds.
Foreign equivalents
Among other peoples, too, there is a saying similar to the value of the phrase "still waters run deep."They also express a warning that humility and apparent complacency can be deceiving.In Greece, for example, say, "Beware of the quiet river, but not violent."English express it this way: "Silent water - deep."French warned: "There is no worse than that of water, which is asleep."In Spain, to talk about the alleged peace this way: "Silent water is dangerous."The Italians say: "Silent water destroys bridges", and Poles believe that the "peaceful water washes away the shore."The Slavs deceit calm waters is closely associated with evil spirits dwell there.Ukrainian and Byelorussian proverbs, as well as Russian, state: "In a quiet swamp devils fruit."
Literary life sayings
Proverbs writers willing to use to spice up the character and the whole works.This fate is not spared and the saying "The still waters run deep."It is mentioned in Alexander Ostrovsky's play "The heart - not a stone," Turgenev to the heroine of the novel "Fathers and Sons", FM Dostoevsky in the novel "The Double", VF Tendriakov in the essay "Heavy nature, "PL Proskurin in the trilogy" Fate. "Saying graced the pages of the novel "Mountains and People" N. Libedinskii.Creatively reinterpreted it in the story "The Chair" Grekova, in the story "King-fish" VP Astafieva, in the novel BL Gorbatov "Donbass".
