All kinds of unexpected and seemingly even incomprehensible expressions do not contain dictionaries of the Russian language!That "gulkin nose" - who this bun and what does her nose?Try to understand.
value phraseologism "with gulkin nose»
richness of the native language and the characteristic that the definition of a notion is not limited to one word somehow.You can simply say, "I'm hungry."But it will be nothing more than a statement of fact.And you can add to this post expression and say: "Since yesterday, the mouth of poppy dew was not."And it becomes almost palpable degree of hunger of the speaker.How much richer sounds a message!
Such examples give great variety.No wonder that a huge number of issued relevant dictionaries, explanatory value and origin of the different stable expression.
value phraseologism "with gulkin nose" also expands the concept of "very little" or "very small, not large."It is used usually in the characterization of space objects, money, "it belongs to a need gulkin nose", "A coin in the wallet - with gulkin nose", "tiny room with his gulkin nose."Meaning
The origins of the expression "with gulkin nose»
Idiom and words have common features - lexical meaning and grammatical categories.The first argument is confirmed by the fact that both of them can be correlated as synonyms.These concerns and the idiom "to gulkin nose" to mean "very little."
History of phraseology indicates the phrase as a genetic source of stable expressions.By and large, each of idioms is a grammatical construction that is reinterpreted for a specific term.This is evidenced by the expression considered.
Idiom "with gulkin nose" directly related to the beak of a dove.These birds normally beckon?"Guli-Guli-Guli" - in imitation of their "conversation."And these birds themselves became affectionately just called.A beak - nose dove bun - compared to her body very shallow.That is such lexical and genetic origin, "with gulkin nose" - hence, something very small, well, just a pigeon's beak.
Synonyms phraseologism in Russian
consider the expression belongs to the category of winged words.We know that because of them enriched the language.By the way, the value phraseologism "with gulkin nose" in the Russian lexicon has several similar catch phrase.
- With a variety of expressive shades may use in speech is not less common expression of a small number of "cat laugh", "drop in the bucket", "can be counted on the fingers", "one, two and miscalculated," "just enough""nothing at all", "on the little finger."
- expressions "short nose sparrow" ("sparrow with a nose"), "a pinhead," "little finger" is appropriate to speak about the small size of an object.Note, incidentally, that a somewhat different meaning to the last two expressions of these categories Eaten give them the pretext of "on" and "off".
History of phraseology is rich in such examples.Expanding the topic, you can contact and verbal synonyms (including dialect) having the same meaning.
- meaning "little": drip, drop a penny, on the bottom, chutochny;
- meaning "small": a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiddly, microscopic, takusenky.
Synonyms in other languages
course, traditional Russian expression associated with the onomatopoeic name of a dove, can not just be moved in the wrong lexical system.
However, in different languages there are strong expressions that make sense, "very little."For example, in English the phrase is less then nothing, literally means "less than nothing."And familiar to us, "drop in the bucket" in English sounds a drop in the ocean (drop in the ocean).
in German so klein / wenig wie Taubennase - almost "gulkin nose", which means literally "a little / so little like the nose of a dove."
Winged Spanish expression having the same meaning, sounds like no hay para un bocado, t. E. There is no place for a bite.
seems interesting and the Japanese version phraseologism (neko no hitai hodo), which has the literal meaning of "a cat's forehead" and also means "very little, almost nothing."
Opposites phraseologism in Russian
Naturally, if there is the concept of "very small", then, accordingly, should be the opposite.What might be the opposite meaning phraseologism "with gulkin nose"?
example is the idiom "a dime a dozen."In the old days, in order to artificially create a small pond, a dam partitioned off the river flow.For its construction were used stones, the earth, all just worthless, cheap material, which has been around in large quantities - at least a dime a dozen.
antonyms As can be seen the expression "multitudes", "more than enough", "end-edge there," "heart's content", "small car and truck" and the word "fully".
Although at first sight this seems somewhat surprising, but in a certain sense, can be employed the phrase "no end".Wed .: with gulkin nose - work no end.
Opposites in other languages
expression "with gulkin nose" with the opposite meaning of the interesting options in other languages.In English this antonym meaning "a dime a dozen" would sound like this: at least a dime a dozen.On the Russian translated as "at least a dime (a coin worth 10 cents) for a dozen."
In English there is yet another expression - Anton "Gulkina nose", which corresponds to the Russian 'small car and truck »: enough for a man and his dog (t. E. Literally: it is enough for a man and his dog).
Spanish phrase al menos a diez centavos por docena has the same meaning as the English about 10 cents per dozen.
French Russian line "a dime a dozen» - au moins treize à la douzaine.Literally translated as "at least a dozen thirteen (t. E., Twelve)."
In German counterparts "rife» - jeder menge, t. E., "A large number", "a dime a dozen» - Im Überfluss («in abundance"), but it is, so to speak, the verbal substitutes.A still have such a stable phrase: so viel wie Sand am Meer, which literally means "as many as the sand by the sea."
use of the expression "with gulkin nose" in the literature
phraseology have an enviable fate.They play the role of language elements, adorn and enrich it.Get at least the phrase "with gulkin nose."Value "is very small, very small", as has been found to have several fixed expressions which have been used successfully in the literature speech.
Although dictionaries near the mark is considered idiom "simple." - Colloquial, it is easy to imagine how dull would sound dialogue, for example, the story of heroes S. Antonov "It was in Penkovo" if instead of "Gulkina nose" wasconcise written "quite a few": "Dryer needed when there is dry, - he interrupted.- And we have the seed of maize know yourself how much.With gulkin nose. "
As already noted, terms used not only to detect minute amounts, but in the description size area.For example, in "Family Zvonareva" Stepanov mouth of one of the characters says: "The only bad thing: to put something somewhere?Shed - with gulkin nose, and at the roof of the lean. "
use of the expression "with gulkin nose" in speech
When people talk to each other in everyday circumstances, they, of course, unlikely to occur to any lexical units they use in conversation - or idioms is just words.A stable expressions have such a feature: they represent the whole education and used, organically and naturally flowing into the voice stream.And "with gulkin nose" - not even an exception.Quite the contrary.
Idiom similar words used in speech, subject to the established norms of the language.Nevertheless, they can be pronounced, and speaking in a slightly modified form.I may use the phrase without a preposition: "small - well, purely gulkin nose."In another version of it sound conversational as "no more Gulkina nose."A above was marked by a synonym considered expressions as "a sparrow's nose."As they say, a bird is different, but the meaning is one.
Conclusion Among the various components of the composite section of linguistics called the phraseology, the expression "with gulkin nose" is released by the process of education: its integral part is like a word rethought."Bun" - "dove", "nose" - "beak", and as a result this expression "the dove's beak" expresses a new meaning - "negligible."
As a rule, idioms are mostly elements of the conversation, no matter how often they are used in the literature.However, they are quite difficult to separate from stylistically neutral expressions used in the different types of speech, including colloquialisms.
Knowing that means "to gulkin nose" as the idiom, it is possible to use it in everyday communication in the role that linguists would characterize as a stylistically reduced - vernacular.
However, if you try to carry out a kind of experiment on the frequency of use of the phraseological unit, compared with words that have the same value, then, perhaps, would be an idiomatic expression in a winner.If it is not "a gulkin nose", then at least "enough to swear" - exactly.
