Labor in Russia has always been a noble and necessary work. Idleness was not respected and even considered shameful. Children were taught to work since childhood and were condemned for laziness and idleness. Once this process is called! It is not surprising that in the Russian language a lot of phraseological units have formed for the word "loung".
Value
There is nothing complicated in the definition of the word “idle”: it was formed from the merger of the noun “deed” and the prefix “without”, that is, it literally means “to be idle”, “to do nothing” and is opposite in meaning to the verb “to work” ".
Synonyms: to be lazy, to cool, to take off from work, to spend time idly.
Persistent expressions with the word lounger.
There are several phraseological units in the Russian language that correspond to this verb. The first and most obvious association with the word “lounging” that immediately comes to mind is “breaking the buck.” The expressions “fool around” and “sit back” are also widespread. Among the less well-known phraseological units: “catch flies”, “chasing a loafer”, “do not move a finger”, “spit on the ceiling”, etc. Let us consider some of them in more detail.
Beat the buck
This phraseology has several options for the history of occurrence. As often happens, the expression was originally used in the literal sense, and over time it acquired a figurative meaning. But there are several suggestions where this statement came from.
The most popular version of the origin is related to the process of making cookware. In Russia, all kinds of utensils were made of wood, and the process of work went through several stages.
Stumps were called stumps, mainly birch or aspen, processed to make kitchen utensils.
The preparatory stage for the manufacture of wooden utensils was to split logs into buckwheels and their subsequent scraping. This work was considered very simple and was able to even a child.
Another version comes from the custom of night watchmen while walking around the territory to knock with wooden stumps and clappers. This work was also considered incredibly simple.
According to another version of the origin of phraseology to “laze around”, the expression previously meant playing a musical instrument - baclus. It was a plate, which was very easy to play.
Fool around
Traditionally, the version of the origin of the expression "fool around" is associated with the childhood toy of our parents - a tumbler, or, as it was also called, a vanka-vstanka. The meaning of the game was to drop the doll, but no matter how you try, it still rises and stands level. It turns out that dropping her is a futile exercise, and given that it was possible to spend more than one hour this way, time was wasted. The connection with the fool, obviously, lies in the correspondence of the names of the Vanka-Vstanka and the popular character of Russian fairy tales, who does not differ in intelligence and quick wit, - Ivan the Fool.