Russian language is rich with bright, juicy expressions are not always clear to those for whom it is not native.Foreigners have long to explain how it is - to catch crows, do not hunt with the birds, fight like a gray goat, without touching no pets.To the category of speech like puzzles can be attributed to "stoerosovuyu cudgel."
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What chump?Let's start with the first word in the phrase.Initially the so-called big thick stick applied to hunt animals or as a weapon in the battle.They are used by people in the era of primitive society.Then the club became known as not every stick, and specially processed: smoothly hewn, refined from the region, who took his hand, and thickened at the opposite end.Edge was usually rounded.Synonyms, now infrequent "oryasinu", "dubё", "mace", "staves" (not to be confused with a dress code).
Stoerosovaya - is it?
Now the second word in the phrase chump.In the dictionary Dahl and Ushakov is so important: it is a tree that grows straight, straight, without bends and curvatures.In another way, "the growing resistant" - standing not Poleg not stele to the ground.Hence, chump - a special, flat stick, quite a formidable weapon in the capable hands of a savage!
Greek version
continue our research.After all, it is far from finished!The second interpretation of the term "chump" is associated with the Greek language.It was a compulsory subject in seminaries.But most often memorized, rather, just crammed the language, as well as Old Slavonic, without much understanding, mechanically.Often just trying to adapt alien morphology, word-formation or phonetic model by the usual Russian sample.The Greek is the word stauros - pile, pole, stake, stick.Combined chump adjective sounding clearly close to the Greek model.And if you take the literal meaning, it turns out, "a club made of sticks, cola and so on."As the saying goes, it is a meaningful combination!
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And in terms of idiomatic adhesions, stable expression which means "chump"?As is known, a figurative meaning for the word-object formed on the basis of certain associative connections, analogies between it and other objects, in something close.In colloquial speech in phraseologism "chump" meaning is as follows: stupid, stupid, blunt people.Refers to the general nature of it, ie,It applies to people, both male and female.Synonyms are usually stylistically reduced: idiot, stupid, stupid, ignorant, blockhead, without a king in his head, etc.And even saying: "Power is - do not mind."Why is this understanding phraseologism?Apparently, foolish man, his inability to understand anything compared with toughness, "neproshibaemostyu" tree species is especially strong.Remember, Gogol landowner capsule named "dubinnogolovoy"!IeAgain faced with a club.Stoerosovost is explained as follows: as the tree grows smoothly, directly and literally everything a person perceives, thinks narrowly, can not ignore, to understand something that goes beyond its horizons.In short, straightforward thinking.Or, going back to the Greco-seminaristskomu embodiment, applied to man "stoerosovaya club" - "Wooden Man": neproshibaemy whom nothing is impossible to explain.Incidentally, among the seminarians who studied a lot of scholastic science, it was full of such instances!Phraseologism antonyms are the words and phrases: smart, clever, intelligent, smart, crazy Chamber genius.
