Hunger is not the burden of the meaning of a phraseological unit. “Hunger is not an aunt”: literary analogies and everyday meaning of the expression. Three sources, three components

Hunger is not an aunt

Analogues of sayings about hunger, which is not an aunt

• Hunger is driving the world
• Hunger is not an aunt, the belly is not a basket
• Hunger is not an aunt, and the belly is not a basket
• Hunger is not an aunt, the soul is not a neighbor
• Hunger is not a neighbor: you can’t escape it
• Hunger is not an aunt, it will make you talk
• Hunger is a grumpy godfather: it gnaws until it gets to you
• Hunger is not an aunt, it will make you work
• Hunger drives the wolf out of the forest (into the village).
• Hunger is not an aunt, she won’t put a ball on you
• Hunger will not run away into the forest
• Hunger doesn't make your stomach bloat, but it's more fun on an empty stomach
• Hunger is not my aunt, frost is not my brother
• The belly will not burst from hunger, it will only shrink
• They don't die of hunger, they just swell

“Hunger is not an aunt,” says the people, and adds: “The stepmother is fierce, but hunger is fiercer!” (E. A. Salias “On Moscow”)

Application of proverbs in literature

— “They were guarded, but hunger was not an issue - they broke off crusts of bread for themselves, and for future use.”(Daniil Granin “Bison”)
— “I used to think that hunger is not my aunt, but it turns out that my aunt is hunger.”(Vasily Grossman “Life and Fate”)
— “Nothing. Hunger is not a thing. “I see,” the woman did not immediately say and walked away, seemingly losing interest in both the frogs in the hat and both men.”(Vasil Bykov “Wolf Pit”)
— “But if hunger is not your aunt, then cold is also not your uncle, do you agree?”(Vladimir Sanin “Don’t say goodbye to the Arctic”)
— ““It’s enough, isn’t it,” I thought, listening, “as an example, isn’t it according to the proverb: “hunger is no help”?”(I. A. Goncharov “Frigate “Pallada”)

Some people are lucky with their relatives, while others are not so lucky. Those who are lucky will understand the popular aphorism “hunger is not an aunt.” People who are not familiar with good relations with relatives, they still do not realize the full depth of the proverb we are considering. In any case, we will do a little research for both. In it we will reveal the meaning and significance of the connection between good relatives and hunger.

Knut Hamsun, "Hunger"

Hunger is a terrible condition if it plagues a person for long enough. To avoid starvation, people steal and sometimes kill. A person needs to eat three times a day or at least two times. Some people manage to eat once a day, but this is only when circumstances force it.

Literature gives vivid examples that hunger is not a problem. First of all, this is Knut Hamsun’s novel “Hunger”. The ending of the novel is quickly erased from memory, but the masterful descriptions of a man who has not eaten for several days remain with the reader forever.

The most interesting thing is that Hamsun's character is a journalist. He needs to write in order to eat, but he cannot write a single article because he is hungry. The letters merge. Abdominal cramps and pain interfere with work. It is not for nothing that Hamsun is called the “Norwegian Dostoevsky”, for he describes the hero’s ordeals with amazing psychological accuracy, bordering on meticulousness. The man in the classic novel would agree, not thinking that hunger is not an issue.

Charles Bukowski

The creator of autobiographical novels, Charles Bukowski, also knew firsthand what hunger was, for the hero of most of his novels constantly wants to eat, but as soon as he has money, he immediately goes down to the nearest bar. Nevertheless, Book (as his friends lovingly called the founder of “dirty realism”) argues in his writings with two common truths: firstly, the artist must be hungry all the time in order to create something out of the ordinary; secondly, “a full belly is deaf to learning.” Answering both arguments at once, he concludes: a) hunger is not a problem; b) he personally works better when he eats a good portion of boiled potatoes with meat or sausages.

Sergey Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov also does not lag behind foreign authors. Somewhere in the vastness of his not too impressive, but sparkling prose, the image of a hungry journalist who, sitting in the park, longingly looks at swans swimming in a pond and is already trying out how best to catch them, is lost.

But everything ends well: the hero meets a rich, middle-aged lady who takes care of his food supply. You say: “Alphonse!” But what to do, the proverb “hunger is not your aunt” speaks the truth.

By the way, Dovlatov claims in notebooks that this story had a real prototype and everything was exactly as described. However, we promised to talk about relatives and hunger, so we will engage in direct linguistic interpretation.

Relatives and hunger

The saying “hunger is not an aunt” implies that a person has good relatives, and they will definitely feed him and caress him if necessary. The same cannot be said about hunger - it is merciless and torments a person inexorably until he satiates his belly. Such a blissful picture was probably where the saying came from. The situation is pleasant because the person has relatives who will not let him disappear just like that.

Now, when a person is overwhelmed by the spirit of competition and the thirst for profit, all family relationships go to hell. “Man is a wolf to man,” said the Roman sage, and he was absolutely right. Apparently, in ancient Rome The relations between people were not very pleasant.

In other words, we are very happy for those who have somewhere to go. With each round of capitalism (especially in Russia), people are rapidly dehumanized and individualized. Connections between people are severed. People turn into islands in the ocean of life, drifting on their own. Observing such a bleak picture, you involuntarily think: what will happen if aunts, uncles, and parents suddenly disappear from the world? To whom will the starving wanderer go?

Proverbs and sayings, as well as set expressions that came into modern language from past generations play an important role in human life. Phraseologisms make it easier to express thoughts. Sometimes one phrase can replace 2-3 sentences. What does the proverb “hunger is not an aunt” mean and what is its origin story? What connects the desire to be satisfied with a relative?

Meaning and usage

The feeling of hunger can overtake anyone. What a person is ready to do to satisfy it is an individual question for everyone. In the 17th century, the expression in expanded form sounded like this: “hunger is not an aunt - she won’t slip a pie.” The meaning is obvious: in a difficult period of life, at a time of shortage of food, a close relative will definitely help and feed him well, unlike the lonely person acute feeling, which can lead to inexplicable unwanted actions.

The mention of the proverb in specialized dictionaries dates back to the 19th century. Sayings that are shortened over time are often found in speech, but the essence cannot always be understood without the missing part. An example of this is the expression:

• it was smooth on paper (yes, they forgot about the ravines);
• don't say gop (until you jump over).

Over the years, the beginning of a stable expression is used more often, and the remaining words are implicitly implied and omitted in speech, assuming that the interlocutor’s inner voice will complete the phrase.

There is an assumption that there is another version: “hunger is not an aunt, but a dear mother.” Understanding the semantic meaning should be approached from an understanding of the benefits of fasting. Linguists are ambivalent about the veracity of this interpretation - it raises doubts. But it should be noted that this feeling sharpens many instincts, and when it reaches a critical point, it overshadows all other desires and needs. In search of food, a person is ready to do a lot.

Literary lines

IN works of art You can also often see sayings and proverbs. They add beauty and folk notes to any creation. Thus, in Bykov’s literary work “Wolf Pit”, to enhance understanding of the current situation, it was mentioned: “Hunger is not an aunt. “I see,” the woman did not immediately say and walked away, losing interest in the frogs in the hat and both men.”

Here we can trace the second version of the interpretation of phraseological units; each author introduces a piece of his own subtext depending on his role in literary work. This proverb can be seen in D. Granin’s “Zubr”, V. Grossman’s “Life and Fate”, V. Sanin’s “Don’t Say Goodbye to the Arctic”, I. Goncharov’s “Frigate “Pallada”.

Expressions with similar meaning

The saying “hunger is not an aunt” has many analogues, the semantic load of which is almost identical. It was said above that the full version has the ending: “he won’t slip the pie.” In other variants the following endings are found:

• the same structure as “won’t put a ball”;
• with a comparative aspect, such as “but the belly is not a basket”, “the soul is not a neighbor”, “frost is not a brother”;
• and another type, like “will make you talk/work”, “will not leak into the forest.”

In addition to the options mentioned, modified versions can often be found in use:

• hunger doesn’t make your stomach swell, it’s more fun on an empty stomach/ it drives you into the world/ it’s not your neighbor that drives the wolf out of the forest, you can’t get away from it;
• hunger is a grumpy godfather: he gnaws until he gets it;
• They don’t die of hunger, they just swell; their belly doesn’t burst, it just shrinks.

Each version of folklore was formed thanks to folk art and is associated with a particular situation. Which option is suitable for enhancing the shade of a sentence or in expressing thoughts is everyone’s choice.

Foreign versions

IN English To express this idea, the following options are provided:

• needs must when the devil drives;
• hunger stone breaks walls;
• hunger pierces stone walls;
• hunger drives the wolf out of the wood;
• hunger is rather a mean stepmother;
• hunger is no joke.

The exact translation of which also varies:

• you won’t get into trouble;
• the feeling of hunger can break/pierce stone walls;
• the feeling of hunger drives the gray one out of the forest;
• hunger, like an evil stepmother;
• hunger is no joke.

The meaning of all these options boils down to one thing: the feeling of hunger can force a person to do a lot.

Three sources, three components

It would seem that everything is simple, not a Newton binomial. To normalize weight, you need to normalize your relationship with food. To normalize your relationship with food, you need, in fact, three important things - to find out and understand how I eat and what I eat, to understand what is happening with my body image (people who are globally dissatisfied with the way they look, not extra pounds on stomach or thighs, and themselves in general, are much more likely to “break down” and periodically gain a kilogram - in revenge on their own body for being so unattractive) and allow the choice of food, time and volume of food to be controlled by the body, that is, by the feeling of hunger.

If you are addicted to food, if you have experience of emotional eating, binge-eating or compulsive overeating, then I give you a hand in cutting off that your relationship with the feeling of hunger is complex.

It is possible that you have completely forgotten. When was the last time it was tested? You “enjoy” this or that food so many times a day that you have completely lost this feeling. Or perhaps you unconsciously try to avoid hunger. Because it makes you feel anxious. As we have already discussed in previous materials, the feeling of hunger has a very long evolutionary and social history. From a caveman's point of view, hunger should be avoided as much as possible. From the point of view of Homo sapiens, the feeling of hunger is a dangerous, threatening experience. You can die from hunger, you can get seriously ill. From the point of view of modern man, hunger is simply a guard. This is evidence that - time! - you have a body (and if it is not the kind that you and other people like, if it does not meet the standards - beware!), two! - it, the scoundrel, demands its own. He needs food, evidence that you don't eat butterflies and pollen, that you need calories. Evidence that once you start eating, you, like any other person, are theoretically capable of gaining weight. If hunger doesn’t regulate food intake, then what does? Emotional state - once. I eat because I'm sad, lonely or angry, I eat as a reward for work done or vice versa so that I can put off starting a task that I don't like for a little longer, finally I eat because I'm overtired, take responsibility and I can’t reschedule, and I need insulin bursts of energy to move on. We have already discussed these reasons earlier.

What else regulates your food intake? In situations where nutrition is not controlled by hunger, anything is controlled by it.

I eat for company. My husband came home from work, the children came from school, I’m not hungry, but I eat because it’s a way of communication or a means of structuring this communication.
I eat because the social situation pushes me to do so. I came to visit, and it’s inconvenient to refuse. Guests came to me, and it would be inhospitable not to feed them.
I eat because the food is in front of my nose, and since it’s there, I’ll eat it (what almost all compulsive eaters note is that if it’s not good for me to eat, I shouldn’t have it in the house).
I eat because I am used to certain activities in my life being accompanied by food. A Saturday grocery shopping trip, a trip to the cinema with the children and much more puts us in front of many cultural food establishments that so temptingly open their doors to us - we don’t have to cook, we don’t have to put away the dishes, and we’re still here...
I eat because I'm thirsty, and I'm not used to distinguishing thirst from hunger. I eat because I'm cold, I eat because I have a headache, I interpret every signal from my body that isn't hunger as hunger because I'm too anxious or too difficult to accept hunger as it is.

How does hunger make you feel when you do experience it? Watch yourself, this is very important to understand.

These experiences can be so conflicting that the slightest feeling of hunger will cause great discomfort: no, I don’t want to think that I have a body, I don’t want to admit that I need calories! As a result, I will constantly “bite”, eat not at those moments when I am hungry, but when I am hungry, I will resist this feeling with all my might and chew a cabbage leaf. True, the feeling of hunger tends to only intensify from attempts to feed him a cabbage leaf, and the result will be a food breakdown - cookies, ice cream, candy, a bowl of Olivier salad with fresh bread... Then the cycle will repeat, and so on many times.

Wisdom of the Body: An Old Experiment

When a child is born, he has completely clear unconscious ideas about what he needs for a healthy and nutritious diet - if you do not interfere with the process of his nutrition. However, the more developed the world calls itself, the more adults tend to interfere in the process of feeding children, subordinating it to their convenience, the opinion of popular pediatricians, development standards, tables and charts. The results of the following experiment at one time had an extremely supportive effect on my weakened maternal psyche - once I happened to become the mother of a boy who, at the age of one, one and a half years and two years old, ate practically nothing. Grandmothers and pediatricians brought all sorts of blasphemy on me, my sandbox comrades boasted about their cheeky babies and the volume of food they ate, and I was looking for an answer to the question - why is it different here, why doesn’t my child eat a bowl of buckwheat porridge for lunch, like the neighbor’s, but is content with two banana slices or dried?

The answer was found in the description of the most famous, large-scale and long-lasting dietary experiment of the century, conducted in 1928 by Clara Davis (a description of the experiment in Russian can be read in the book Feeding the Child by William and Martha Sears, an article by Davis herself about the results). Davis observed small (aged 6 to 11 months) residents of a special nutritional kindergarten organized for the purposes of this experiment for 6 years. The participants in the experiment were children of single mothers who were unable to support and provide for their children, and children of teenage mothers from unwanted pregnancies. Most of the children suffered from severe anemia and significant underweight, rickets and other disorders that usually accompany poor nutrition. Every meal, every bite of what every child ate was recorded throughout these six years, which ultimately amounted to about 38 thousand “food diary” entries.

Food was offered to the children, but was never forced in any way. Food was placed in certain places, in full view of the children. Nurses who cared for babies who were not yet able to walk never actively offered food to children. Only if the child clearly reached for a certain type of food, he received it in a spoon. If the child refused to eat, the spoon was immediately removed. Children who could walk independently could freely approach and choose any types and combinations of food that they liked. The food offered was absolutely natural, each type of food was a single product - combinations and mixing of products were not allowed. Why? To ensure that the child has chosen a specific, specific food for its nutritional value. Therefore, the experimental diet contained whole grains, but no bread. All types of food were unsalted, salt was served in a separate bowl like any other food, and children could choose it if they wanted. Among the products offered were vegetables and fruits, several types of meat and organ meats (kidneys, liver), whole grain flakes and cereals, milk and fermented milk products.

The first discovery of the experiment, now widely known as scientific fact about the nutrition of children, it became that children consume an uneven amount of calories throughout the day, week or month. One day they can eat double their daily calorie intake, the next they barely get half of it. On one day, the caloric content of what was eaten could reach the norm due to the consumption of a small amount of foods with high calorie value, for example, meat or cereals, on another - due to vegetables and fruits eaten in large quantities.

None of the young subjects' eating styles followed the Institute of Pediatrics' dietary guidelines for their age, and no diet was similar to the other. Each child ate differently. These little scoundrels didn’t care about nutritional standards. They ate stewed liver, washed down with milk and a couple of hard-boiled eggs at night. They happily placed a banana slice on top of the potatoes and devoured this nutritionist's nightmare with gusto.

It was found that, in comparison with the statistics of other children's institutions, the children participating in the experiment rarely and rarely got sick and experienced minor health problems typical for this age. Constipation was unknown in this kindergarten. There were no cases of vomiting or diarrhea. During the experiment, viral infections such as influenza that children fell ill with were mild and lasted no more than 3 days. It was noted that during the period of recovery from infections, children ate unusual amounts of fresh meat, milk and fruit.

Of course, the participants in the experiment underwent regular and detailed medical examinations, which noted an increase in hemoglobin in the blood to normal levels, normalization of calcium and phosphorus levels, excellent calcification of children's bones, which before the experiment suffered from rickets, in some cases in an advanced stage, and most strikingly that the children gained weight to the required age level, but nothing more. Of course, there were thinner and more solidly built participants in the group, but neither emaciation nor obesity was noticed. One of the doctors involved in the medical evaluation of the participants subsequently wrote an article in a reputable pediatric journal, calling the experimental group "a group of the most physically and behaviorally healthy members of the human species" he had ever seen.

And the food did it all. Or rather, intuitive body settings that allow you to choose exactly the type of food that suits your needs. at the moment most needed by the body. The children did not receive any types of vitamins, not even fish oil, and no hardware methods of improving health known at that time (UV lamps, heating, etc.).

Subsequently, a number of nutritional experiments were conducted with children, which showed the exceptional ability of the human body, “unspoiled” by nutritional standards, to independently regulate the level and type of food consumption.

Based on this idea, a method was developed to help compulsive overeaters return to the intuitive settings of their own body. If a person suffering from a disturbed relationship with food can learn to recognize his own feeling of hunger, nuance it, eat exactly what his hunger requires at the moment, and stop at the moment of satiety, then the result will be physical and mental satisfaction, the cessation of dieting cycles. gluttony and normalization of relationships with food.

Hunger is not an aunt, but a friend, comrade and brother

Hunger, as a physiological “event” of the body, is regulated by the hypothalamus - a tiny part of the brain located in its depths and is mainly localized. in the stomach. This means that “hungry in the head”, “bored in the mouth” and “grandmother will be offended if I don’t eat this cutlet” are by no means physiological events and have nothing to do with hunger. Now, while reading these lines, put your hand on the place where you feel hungry. Where did your hand go? The stomach is located just above the abdominal area, literally half a hand above the abdomen. If the hand is there, everything is fine. And it happens that the hand points to the area above the stomach, discomfort in which is regarded as hunger. This is not hunger, but anxiety, a feeling that people with eating disorders most often interpret as hunger.

The next step is to take inventory of the bodily sensations associated with hunger. Take a piece of paper, sit down and describe what signs of hunger you experience (most of you have already done this in the previous exercise, so just open the appropriate entry).

* Stomach growls
* Feeling of emptiness in the stomach
* Sucking feeling in the stomach
* Weakness
* Dizziness, headache
*Irritability
* Trembling in limbs

Please note that absolutely all the signs of hunger that you wrote down are bodily sensations, or sensations, in a smart way. Please also note that if you only write down trembling, headache or weakness, then these are signs of extremely intense hunger, and this means that you do not recognize its milder forms, and listen to ted only when hunger becomes extreme -intense. How to deal with this? How to capture more subtle sensations? Listen to your body over the course of a day or two and try to catch when your stomach feels empty or begins to growl - these are more or less accurate signs that you are hungry. At the same time, on an emotional level, and this is important to note, anything can happen to you. We are hungry no matter what happens in our mental life. Any change in the feeling of hunger in response to events in mental life (not only gluttony, but also anorexia, the inability to eat in response to stress) may be signs of a breakdown in this system.

Now we will learn to recognize the intensity of the feeling of hunger that I am experiencing at the moment. To do this, we will use this scale:

I’m dying of hunger - Extremely hungry - Hungry - Slightly hungry (would like to eat something) - Neither hungry nor full - Not particularly hungry - Full - Fully full (stomach full to capacity) - Overeaten

Copy or print out this scale for yourself on a small piece of paper that you can carry with you. For 3-4 days in a row, take it out as often as possible and determine how intense your feeling of hunger is now. I know that many obesity treatment programs and books dedicated to overcoming overeating offer similar scales in numerical equivalent, from 1 to 10, and advise “only eat if your hunger is at level 8 or above,” for example. This strategy is categorically not suitable for compulsive eaters and bingers, because, as we have already established earlier, most of these people are extremely inclined to try to satisfy the needs of other people. Having self-esteem dependent on the opinions of others, a compulsive eater will try to “be good” and eat only if the feeling of hunger has an intensity of 3 or 4, or, conversely, suffer from a feeling of guilt, since “he was full to level 10.” Any attempts to put bodily sensations into numbers lead to what we are trying to get rid of - they increase the distance between consciousness and body.

Once you begin these observations, you may notice several typical phenomena.

First, often compulsive eaters only recognize hunger when they are actually nearly dying from it. If you wait until this moment, then a physiological state occurs when the body needs food so desperately that it doesn’t matter at all what kind and how much - any, the more, the better. In this state, no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to determine what exactly you need right now to get enough - as the children did in Clara Davis's experiment. This condition carries a huge risk of overeating, and this is what most often happens to those who like to go on a strict diet.

Another typical state - neither hungry nor full - is very often interpreted by people with eating disorders as hunger. They automatically think that if they don't feel overly full, have a heaviness in their stomach, or feel drowsy, then they are hungry. It’s hard to imagine, but there are states in which the body experiences balance and stability - this is not a state of satiety, but this is not hunger. Between the state of “I’m dying of hunger” and the state of “neither hungry nor full” are precisely those points on the scale when it is best to make the decision to eat something. It is advisable not to bring yourself to the “extremely hungry” state, but to eat something else on the way to it. It is in these states that your body is able to receive its best. the most accurate decisions about that. what exactly do you need to eat now? It is the food consumed in this way that is absorbed optimally.

Please note: you are trusting your body to make food decisions, and this is exactly what responsibility means, as opposed to control. Time (it’s time to eat), social situations (my mother-in-law won’t survive if I don’t eat the pie), the food itself (it lies under my nose, it’s so tasty, but after half an hour it won’t be there anymore, because the children or colleagues at work will eat everything) stop controlling your eating behavior, and rightly so, because what do they know about your body and its needs. Calorie counting tables and lists of allowed foods no longer control your behavior, because you are an individual, and you definitely do not fit into any of these tables. In this mode, you can eat absolutely everything; there are simply no prohibited foods.

To simplify the process of “tuning in” to recognizing the desired states, imagine a large glass of water. It's half full (or half empty?). As your hunger increases, the level of water in the glass decreases. The task is to catch this moment and fill the glass again to the level when it becomes half-empty (or is it still half-empty?).

Our entire food history, both phylogenetic, that is, historical, and anthropogenetic, that is, individual, available to everyone personally, forces us to forget how to listen and ask the body when and what it wants. Eat while they last! If you don’t finish, you won’t leave the table! For mom, for dad, for Aunt Sonya! All this experience teaches us NOT to listen to what we really need, and therefore we end up where we find ourselves - having quarreled with the body, having made food, fuel for the body and a means of obtaining pleasure and energy, a black demon tempting the poor of us, an enemy of the race human.

Some well-known Russian proverbs and sayings, familiar to many people from childhood, turn out to be longer and some have a completely different meaning, to which we are all accustomed in their original meaning. Some of those proverbs and sayings that have been known to us for many years were not exactly the same in the original, but had their own continuation, or rather endings. Oral folk art it was very rarely written down before and, passing from one generation to another, it could lose some part, or it could be added, transformed. Sometimes their meaning was changed over the centuries by our contemporaries.
If you read full versions such proverbs or sayings, their meaning can completely change. We present them to your attention.

Grandmother wondered, but said in two ways: either it will rain, or it will snow, or it will happen, or it won’t.

Poverty is not a vice, but much worse.

A healthy mind in a healthy body is a rare blessing.

You're as lucky as a drowned man on Saturday - you don't have to heat the bathhouse.

Live forever and learn to live.

A raven will not peck out a crow's eye, but will peck it out and not pull it out.

It was smooth on paper, but they forgot about the ravines and walked along them.

Goal is like a falcon, and sharp as an axe.

Hunger is not an aunt, she won’t bring you a pie.

The lip is not a fool, the tongue is not a shovel.

Two boots in a pair, both left.

Chickens don’t peck money and dogs don’t eat it. (about the rich)

The law is not written to fools; if it is written, it is not read; if it is read, it is not understood; if it is understood, it is not understood.

Even if a fool likes a stake, he puts two of his own.

A girl's shame reaches the threshold, she crosses it and forgets.

A spoon is on its way to dinner, and then at least for a bench.

For a beaten person they give two unbeaten ones, but they don’t take much.

If you chase two hares, you won’t catch a single wild boar.

The hare's legs carry, the wolf's teeth feed, the fox's tail protects.

It’s time for business and time for fun.

The mosquito will not knock down the horse until the bear helps.

Whoever remembers the old is out of sight, and whoever forgets is both.

The hen pecks every grain, and the whole yard is covered in droppings.

Bad luck is the beginning - there is a hole, there will be a gap.

Small is distant, and big is thin.

Young people scold - they just amuse themselves, but old people scold - they get angry.

Don’t open your mouth to someone else’s loaf, get up early and start your own.

It’s not all Maslenitsa, there will be Lent too.

The woodpecker is not sad that he cannot sing; the whole forest can already hear him.

Neither fish, nor meat, nor caftan, nor cassock.

A new broom sweeps in a new way, but when it breaks, it lies under the bench.

Alone in the field is not a warrior, but a traveler.

Horses die from work, but people grow stronger.

It's a double-edged sword, it hits here and there.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the consolation of fools.

Water does not flow under a lying stone, and under a rolling stone it does not have time.

For a drunk, the sea is knee-deep, and the puddle is up to his ears.

The dust is a column, the smoke is a rocker, but the hut is not heated, not swept.

Work is not a wolf, it won’t run away into the forest, that’s why it must be done, damn it.

Grow big, but don't be a noodle, stretch a mile, but don't be simple.

The hand washes the hand, but both itch.

The fisherman sees the fisherman from afar, so he avoids them.

If you get along with a bee, you’ll get honey; if you get along with a beetle, you’ll end up in manure.

It’s not expensive to blame a sick head on a healthy one.

The dog lies in the hay, does not eat itself and does not give it to the cattle.

They ate the dog and choked on its tail.

An old horse will not spoil the furrows, and it will not plow deep.

Fear has big eyes, but they see nothing.

The ward is crazy, but the key is lost.

Bread on the table is like a throne; and not a piece of bread - so the table is a board.

What the hell isn't joking while God sleeps!

Miracles in a sieve - there are many holes, but nowhere to jump out.

All right, but the knot is here.

"I" - last letter in the alphabet, yes “Az” is the first. (“az” is the first letter of the Russian Church Slavonic alphabet)

My tongue is my enemy, it prowls before the mind, looking for trouble.

N and on this page: full versions (continuations, endings) of some famous abbreviated Russian proverbs and sayings, i.e. read them in full.

Not everyone knows that many sayings and proverbs familiar to us from childhood, we remember and say in a shortened form: a full text Sometimes it takes away a completely different meaning. For example:

* Two boots in a pair, both on one foot

* He ate the dog in this case and choked on his tail

* All people are brothers, like Cain and Abel

* The chicken is pecking at the grain... but the whole yard is littered.

* An old horse won’t spoil the furrows... but it won’t plow deep either!

* There is a freak in the family, and because of the freak, everything is not pleasing.

* Horses die from work, but people grow stronger

* Dust in a column, smoke in a rocker, but the hut is not heated, not swept

* Goal like a falcon, but sharp as a razor

* Know ours - the last penny is edge-on

* Young people scold - they have fun, old people scold - they get angry

* The hare's legs are carried, the wolf's teeth are fed, the fox's tail is protected

* Do everything you can and come what may

* A healthy body rarely contains a healthy mind

* For a drunk, the sea is knee-deep, and the puddle is up to his ears

* Whoever remembers the old will be out of sight, and whoever forgets will be out of both eyes

* Hunger is not an aunt, but a dear mother

* Fear has big eyes, but they don’t see anything.

* Miracles in a sieve, but there are many holes, but nowhere to jump out.

* A spoon is on its way to dinner, and then at least for a bench.

* The master is afraid of the work, but the master of the work is afraid.

* My tongue is my enemy! Before the mind speaks!

* A new broom sweeps in a new way, but when it breaks, it lies under the bench

* When they hit you on your right cheek, turn your left, but don’t let them hit you

*Pound water in a mortar and there will be water!

* Hunger is not an aunt - she won’t slip you a pie.

* The dog lies in the hay, does not eat itself and does not give it to the cattle.

* Not all the cats will have Maslenitsa and Lent

* A double-edged stick that hits here and there

* For a drunk, the sea is knee-deep, and the puddle is up to his ears

* We support ourselves with your prayers like poles.

* It’s young and green - I’m told to take a walk

* Don’t open your mouth to someone else’s loaf - get up first and start your own.

* My tongue, my enemy, searches before my mind and seeks trouble.

* The hand washes the hand, but both are itching.

* Neither fish, nor meat, nor caftan, nor cassock.

* The lip is not a fool, the tongue is not a shovel

* Your mouth is full of trouble, but there is nothing to bite.

* A dog's life: you need to lie, but there is nothing to eat.

* Bad luck is the beginning: there is a hole, there will be a gap.

* Uma chamber and the key is lost.

* Chickens don’t peck for money - no money and no chickens.

* There is nowhere to put money - there is nothing to buy a wallet with.

* There was no sewing in the bag hide it, and the girl you can't hide it under lock and key

* A raven will not peck out a crow's eye, but will peck it to death

* The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but it rolls far!

* I’ll take away someone else’s trouble with my hands, I won’t apply my mind to mine

* Where it’s thin, that’s where it breaks, and where it’s thin, that’s where it’s torn

* Horses don’t roam for food, they don’t seek good for good

* A friend in trouble is known like gold in fire

* Lucky as a drowned man - he swam, swam, and drowned on the shore!

* Went through fire, water and copper pipes- yes, hit the devil in the teeth

* The grave will correct the hunchback, and the club will correct the stubborn one

* Live forever and learn, but you will still die a fool

There are even proverbs with changed words, for example: You, God, are of no use to me. Instead of: On you, poor thing, which is worthless to me.

The word “wretched”—beggar—gone from the language, and the word was replaced, and with it the meaning/

And another: I got caught like chickens in cabbage soup. Instead: I got caught like chickens being plucked.

Because they make broth from chickens, but not cabbage soup.

Phraseologism “Hunger is not an aunt” meaning:
To many, the phraseology “hunger is not an aunt” seems very strange. It is not entirely clear what the aunt and hunger might have in common, and why this particular relative is present in the saying. The explanation is quite simple. It turns out that the expression “hunger is not a aunt” is only the first part of the proverb, which completely reads as follows: “Hunger is not a aunt, it won’t bring you a pie.” This proverb has been known for quite a long time - it can be found in dictionaries published about two centuries ago. Such “truncated” expressions are found everywhere. However, it is extremely difficult to understand their meaning without the missing part. These phrases also include the famous “dog in the manger”, full version which looks like: “The dog lies in the hay, does not eat itself and does not give it to the cattle.” To many, the phraseology “hunger is not a thing” seems very strange. It is not entirely clear what the aunt and hunger might have in common, and why this particular relative is present in the saying. The explanation is quite simple. It turns out that the expression “hunger is not a woman” is only the first part of the proverb, which completely reads as follows: “Hunger is not a woman, it won’t bring you a pie.” This proverb has been known for quite a long time - it can be found in dictionaries published about two centuries ago. Such “truncated” expressions are found everywhere. However, it is extremely difficult to understand their meaning without the missing part. These phrases also include the well-known “dog in the manger”, the full version of which is: “The dog lies in the manger, does not eat itself and does not give it to the cattle.”

The proverbs we often use appropriately and inappropriately often do not have quite the meaning that we put into them. Sometimes this meaning is even directly opposite to the original one. As for me, I was always sure that the old horse, although it would not spoil the furrows, would not plow deeply. An apple that falls close to an apple tree always has a non-zero chance of rolling away from its apple tree some distance. And a stubborn person, unlike a hunchback, can always be helped by a properly used strong club.

Hunger is not an aunt - it won’t feed you with a pie
I’ll sweep away someone else’s misfortune with my hands, I won’t apply my mind to mine
My mouth is full of trouble, but I have nothing to eat
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but it rolls far

The hand washes the hand, but both are itching (I heard a more positive version “and both are clean”)
Neither fish nor meat, nor caftan nor cassock
You can't hide an awl in a bag, you can't hide a girl under lock and key
My tongue - my enemy - prowls before the mind, looking for trouble

Chickens don't peck for money - no money and no chickens
Fear has big eyes, but they don’t see anything.
A spoon is on its way to dinner, and then there’s at least a bench
A healthy mind is rare in a healthy body

The sea is knee-deep for a drunk, and the puddle is up to his ears
Miracles in a sieve: there are many holes, but nowhere to jump out
All men are brothers, like Cain and Abel
The chicken pecks at a grain, but pollutes the whole yard (again, “and you’re full”)

Horses die from work, but people grow stronger
An old horse won’t spoil the furrows, but it won’t plow deep either.
Whoever remembers the old is out of sight, and whoever forgets is out of both eyes
The master is afraid of the work, but another master is afraid of the work

A new broom sweeps in a new way, but when it breaks, it lies under the lava
Pound water in a mortar and there will be water
Dog in the manger: does not eat itself, and does not give it to the cattle
Don’t open your mouth to someone else’s loaf, but get up earlier and start your own

Crazy chamber, but the key is lost
Passed fire, water and copper pipes, but got to hell in the teeth
Where it is thin, there it breaks, where it is thin, there it is flogged.
There is nowhere to put money, there is nothing to buy a wallet with

Lucky as a drowned man - he swam, swam, and drowned on the shore
A friend in trouble is known like gold in fire.
Two boots in a pair, both on one foot
He ate the dog in this case and choked on his tail

The family has its black sheep, and because of the freak, everything is not pleasing
Dust is a pillar, smoke is a rocker, but the hut is not heated, not swept
Goal like a falcon and sharp as a razor
Know ours - the last penny - edge-on

Young people scold and have fun, old people scold and get angry
My tongue is my enemy! Before the mind speaks!
When they hit you on your right cheek, turn your left, but don’t let them hit you
It’s not all Maslenitsa, there will be Lent too

A double-edged sword: it hits here and there
We support ourselves like poles with your prayers
It's young and green - I'm told to take a walk
The lip is not a fool, the tongue is not a shovel

My mouth is full of trouble, but there is nothing to bite
A dog's life: you need to lie, but there is nothing to eat
Bad luck is the beginning: there is a hole, there will be a hole
The grave will correct the hunchback, but the club will correct the stubborn
Repetition is the mother of learning and a haven for fools