Each person in a conversation with someone at least once noticed how the interlocutor uses sayings, catchphrases and proverbs to more accurately describe a situation or problem. Or used them myself. Thanks to the use of winged phrases and proverbs, we can make our speech bright, emotional, imaginative and expressive.
It often happens that a person, using one or another expression in a conversation, may not fully understand its meaning. Or even take it differently. From here stupid situations and misunderstanding arise between the interlocutors.
Historical background of phraseology
Consider one of the common expressions: "bring to white heat." It is rooted deep in the days when forges were built in Russia. When products were forged by burning in furnaces and melting metal.
Spending their time on the burning work, the blacksmiths noticed that the metal needed to go through several stages of heating before it became subject to remelting. The first is red, the second is yellow, and the third is white. It is the white color that the blacksmith judges about the readiness of the product for remelting.
The meaning of phraseology
The subject of phraseology "bring to white heat" is a person brought to the highest point of his patience. The dictionary of phraseological units interprets this expression as "deprive of self-control, angry, enraged."
The meaning of the phrase “bring to white heat” indicates to us the gradual accumulation of negative emotions, feelings about this, the lack of a solution to incoming problems and, as a result, an explosion comparable to a volcanic eruption.
Metal goes through several stages before becoming subject to smelting. Similarly, a person periodically experiences unpleasant emotions in everyday life, which accumulate in the subconscious. Subsequently, one of them becomes the cause of tears, scandal, hysteria and, possibly, mental disorder.
Synonyms of winged expression
To the synonyms of the expression "bring to white heat", the meaning of which we learned, can be attributed to the phrase "get mad." But can they be so confidently identified? Let's get it right.
On the one hand, you can reach the boiling point, that is, to white heat, gradually. This process is similar to winding thread on a ball. On the other hand, each person has different psycho-emotional characteristics and character. Someone can endure a year, two, and someone explodes in seconds. From this we can conclude that as each metal has a different melting point, respectively, time, and each person has a different margin of patience.