About strong friendships they say: "You will not spill water." What this means, as well as where the tradition came from, we will be analyzing today.
The origin of phraseology
Once upon a time, when there was no cable and satellite television and, scary to think, the Internet, people didn’t have much entertainment. Therefore, young men in Russia did not know what to do with themselves, except for fights (of course, in their free time). Do not think that they all day just did that waved their fists.
And, of course, not always young people could keep themselves within the framework. They had to be separated. Irrepressible brawlers poured cold water. And if friendship passed such a test, then it was considered made for centuries. In the literal sense of the word - you won’t spill your friends with water.
Modern meaning
Now the source of expression is forgotten. Few know him, but the very concept in language lives and lives. So they say about those people who are inseparable. If a person has a friend who has been familiar to him since childhood, then you can probably say about them: friends "you won’t spill water." With each passing year, it becomes more and more difficult to maintain relationships with people, the river of life erodes them: everyday worries, affairs, and now friends of relatives and not so much carry away the flow of time.
"Shawshank Redemption" and phraseology
The cult American film is related to the topic of conversation thanks to our translators. Those people who watched the film remember well: when it became known that Andy Dufrain escaped from prison, the director was furious, was furious. The first person he had invited to the empty cell by that time was Red, an ally and friend of Andy. In one of the versions of the translation into Russian, the head of the prison asks the prisoner: “I saw you now and then together, you won’t spill you with water, did he say anything?”
But Andy did not even tell his closest friend about his plans - he wanted to protect him. The former bank manager did not want to expose the one he valued the most.
Moral phraseology
The lesson that can be learned from a simple expression that has been well known since childhood (sometimes it was written even in primers) is that friendship must pass the test, so it becomes real.
If, for example, two people spend time together, chatting about this and that, but keep aloof from each other, in other words, there are some agreed (or implied) frameworks, then their relationship is not quite friendship, but rather mutually beneficial cooperation . The goal of such an enterprise is to “kill” time. A modern person has so much free time that he does not know how to deal with it: whether to spend it on empty conversations about anything or to sit for hours on a social network, pointlessly flipping through a news feed.
Another thing is people who went through fire, water and copper pipes together. And comrade never failed. Everything happens in life. Sometimes, for the sake of a friend, you have to not sleep or get up early in the morning to fly to his aid with all possible agility. Sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice a lot for the sake of man. Friendship is a round-the-clock concept.
The quality of a person is checked not only by misfortune, as the famous phraseologism says, but also by joy. If a person is disposed towards his brother really with all possible warmth, then he will not only be sad with him, but also have fun. Touching leaves people’s relations, and now, unfortunately, one doesn’t even have to pour ice water on someone to check the level of affection, it’s enough to touch personal interests.
But let's not be sad, life is too short. As long as there are people, as long as humanity is alive, it cannot be denied sincere feelings. There is a lot of bad, evil, cynical in the world, but you need to understand: there is not only this, but also light, good and eternal, and the expression “do not spill water” (phraseological unit) reminds us of this.