Phraseologisms vividly and emotionally describe a person’s state of mind. And wherever a person lives, he has imagination. It is the imagination that helps us see the world around us in colors. Therefore, resorting to the help of phraseological turns, you can clearly, colorful and emotionally express your attitude to the world. But, as you know, positive and negative emotions are strong, they make an impression and leave a mark in the souls of people. In the article we will consider one of them. It will be a question of the interpretation and origin of the phraseology “total hell”.
Value
Stable expression is used when they want to describe a certain place of torment where life and its conditions are unbearable. Moreover, this phrase implies unbearable noise, clutter, crush. I would like to draw attention to the word "pitch", the origin of which is rooted in ancient times. When people's ideas about life were radically different from today. The word "pitch" is formed from the word "edge", that is, a border or edge. So, in ancient times, people imagined that the sun shines to a certain boundary, or edge, and there - impenetrable darkness, or pitch-fire hell.
The adjective being studied has become associated with hardships, fears and despair. And the word "hell", as you know, always meant a place of suffering. Note that since ancient times, darkness has been associated in people with fear and suffering, since it was with the advent of darkness that raids of enemies and bloodshed took place. Thus, total hell - this can be a description of fear, pain, house, disorder.
Origin history
During the reign of the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, Russia survived the oprichnina, whose goal was to increase the treasury of the state and strengthen centralized power. In those distant times, the word “pitchfaced” had a new meaning - “except”, which in turn was a synonym for the old Russian word “shout”. It is this word that formed the basis for the name of those innovations that affected the economic and political development of the country.
Oprichnina was accompanied by repression. Moreover, the methods were not quite legal, and sometimes even cruel. In modern language, it can be said that the country experienced outrage, human rights were infringed, human life was not worth a penny, the law was grossly violated. Those people who were entrusted with the order of the king with such powers for collecting the oprichnina were popularly called "peasants." Thereby they emphasized their cruelty, arrogance and cynicism with the meaning of “hell of pitch”.
Since then, this adjective has acquired a negative meaning, and the memories of “peers” were contemptuous and used by people as a swear word. Currently, the adjective is used as part of the phraseological phrase “pitch-fire hell”.
Note that with this word there are many different expressions that, in combination with it, reinforce negative perception. So, this is pitch darkness and pitch darkness.
Synonyms for phraseological circulation
As you know, synonyms diversify our speech, make it more vivid. They more accurately convey our thoughts, allow a person to express that riot of emotions, feelings when describing the phenomenon or quality of an object.
So, synonyms such as mess, mess, hell, tartar, chaos, hell, bedlam, mess, fault are applicable to the phrase “pitch-fire hell”.
In order to convey the fullness of experiences and emotions in fiction and journalism, there is a way to string synonyms.
Here are some examples of the proposal: Painful, desperate, full of screams, abuse, unimaginable pitch-fire hell filled the whole house in the evening. Children in fear hid under the bed.
Or such an example of a sentence: And now I thought that I was in hell. The atmosphere was indeed ominous.
Conclusion
Summing up the above, we note that this phraseological phrase, or rather the semantic message that it bears, has powerful word power. Phrases such as “total hell awaits you” can, like arrows and spears, leave wounds in the soul of a person. The word destroys, but does it imperceptibly.