In any agricultural society, weather plays a crucial role. After all, it directly depends on how rich the harvest will be, therefore, successful life until the new season (next harvest). Heat is not the most fortunate state of nature for farmers, because it is dry land, and "without rain and grass does not grow." Therefore, one of the synonyms for the word "heat" is "hell." Suppose that such a phenomenon of nature, because of its importance, should be reflected in the Russian language by a large number of phraseological units. Is it so? Let's try to find phraseological units for the word "heat".
What is phraseologism?
What phraseology is known from school. It is much more interesting to figure out which phraseological means of a language are combined under a common concept. Moreover, this may help in our search.
- Phraseological unity, fusion, indivisible expressions: "arered eyelids", "alpha and omega."
- Steady momentum that can be divided, while retaining the semantic meaning: "Indian summer", "grandmother's tales."
- A combination, phraseologically connected, and a word with a free meaning: "bet / like a fish on ice."
- Cliche, semantically separable words, proverbs and winged phrases: "a saucer with a gold border."
The origin and meaning of the word "heat"
This word - the heat derived from the Proto-Slavic word, correlated with the ancient Indian "flame", originally denoted burning coals and gradually, in terms of the quality of its impact on the environment, it began to be called hot air, which came from coal and other heat sources, including the sun . Later, the word "heat" began to mean elevated body temperature.
Heat is heated air from any source, heat. In the modern, slang concept - a tense and unpredictable situation.
Oddities
If we turn to dictionaries, reference books, both on paper and on the Internet, it turns out that such an unfavorable weather forecast as heat, oddly enough, is poorly represented in folklore: phraseological units to this word are practically absent. Why? The fact is that most of the phraseological units in the Russian language characterize personal qualities, situations that are directly related to the person.
We will try to find at least one phraseological unit to the word "heat".
Looking for
There are three main commonly used expressions in which the given word is presented in its initial form, they can be called stable turns:
- heatwave;
- the heat subsides / intensifies.
In addition, as a phraseologism, the word "heat" can lead to the expression "hellish heat" (very strong). This is a periphery of the biblical expression "burn in unquenchable fire." The synonymous connection between the word that interests us and the infernal hell arose when this phraseological unit appeared.
By the way, “heat” before the 20th century could be in the plural. And the ladies in stuffy days, waving their fans intensely, languidly said: "Ah, what heat now happened impossible."
Persistent combinations using the word "heat" in foreign languages
Let's look further, maybe in foreign languages phraseology with the word heat is more common? Since it is impossible to embrace the immensity, we will focus on the language of interethnic communication and Greek, since expressions from ancient Greek mythology have become phraseological units in many countries of the world.
- take heat (listen to criticism about yourself, corresponds to the Russian phraseology "get scolded");
- heat under the collar (bursting with anger);
- if you can’t stand the heat, leave the kitchen (grabbed a tug - don’t say that not a dozen).
"Dog heat" is Greek phraseology, meaning very intense heat (not the same as "dog cold"). The expression appeared in the vocabulary of the Greeks thanks to the myth of the death of the shepherd Icarius. After the shepherd died, the god Dionysus turned the shepherd’s dog into the constellation Canis Major and placed it in heaven. The main star of the constellation was named Sirius. This constellation appears in the Greek sky in the hottest period of summer. Naturally, the ancients associated precisely his appearance with the strengthening of the sun.
Conclusion
It is also a conclusion. Sometimes it is difficult to pick phraseology. By the word “heat”, not so many stable expressions were found. But for the word "hand", for example, there are about 50 of them.