Man's life is long. And he now and then finds himself in different situations, funny and tragic. Today we'll talk about the first. How to identify a person who is in an awkward position? There is such a phraseological unit "to sit in a galosh." It is suitable for characterizing an embarrassing situation.
Kaluga. Puddle. Galosh. Galosha
Despite the fact that the sub title resembles a question on an IQ test, it is not so difficult to understand what unites such disparate words. The main thing is to decipher the first word in this list.
Kaluzha is a dialectically modified word "puddle". And it is it that gives rise to many expressions with the verb "sit down". For example:
- Sit in a puddle.
- Sit in a galosh.
- Sit in galoshes.
Stable phrases have arisen due to the paromic distortion of one element of the expression. It is also possible that a language striving for universality got rid of dialectism and replaced it with a common word or words.
Meaning
But in whatever version the idiom is pronounced“sit in a galosh”, its meaning will not change from this. It captures the funny or awkward position of a person in which he found himself of his own free will (due to stupidity, as a rule).
The student who took the wrong turn
A Russian student is a character both mythical and real at the same time. The protagonist of many funny stories. We will compose one with his participation. We need to illustrate the idiom "sit in a galosh".
The night before the exam. The student is teaching. Then he comes to the test. Naturally, he doesn't think well. Then he discovers that he is a lyricist (literary critic) who came to take nuclear physics, mixed up the educational buildings. Naturally sat in a galosh.
Moral: study during the semester, not cram everything in one night.
Jumble TV magazine and set expression
Everyone knows the release of Yeralash, when boys in public transport quite convincingly portray foreigners. Only one little thing brings them down: one of them wants to appear even more organic in his role and informs the conductor that Paris is the capital of Italy! Guys landed from the minibus. And one says to the other: "Every cultured person should know that Paris is the capital of England." Actually both are wrong.
If they were not on the bus, but in front of a geography teacher, he would say to them: “Yes, guys, your knowledge is amazing, and you are ideally suited to illustrate the stable phrase “sit in a galosh”. Offercome up with it yourself.”
Film villains as typical losers
Those who watch a lot of action films probably notice that they are all tailored as if by a single measure. We will not consider all the movie cliches now, but we will focus on one thing: the villain threatens the main character all the time, and then sits in a galosh.
For example, take the epic film with Jean-Claude Van Damme "Bloodsport". In it, according to the laws of the genre, the hero meets his sworn rival and his bosom friend. Of course, in the cycle of events, a rival beats a friend to a pulp and threatens the protagonist. The villain tells him the following: "You are next." Fans of the genre know that in such films, the good guy wins over the bad guy. But the main thing for us is that the villain at the end of the action movie sat in a puddle and asked Frank Dukes for mercy.
Reasons for getting into a galosh and a sentence scheme with phraseology
It is clear that we are interested in the idiom "to sit in a galosh". Offers with him - that's the main question! To give a correct example of the expression, you need to have a good idea of why people usually sit in a galosh, galosh or puddle.
- Overconfidence.
- Hurry.
- Stupidity.
An example of self-confidence. The weightlifter, not calculating the strength, ordered too much weight and did not lift it. Of course, he sat down in a galosh. Overconfidence ruined him.
Football example. The commentator shouts: “Here Ivanov goes one on one with the goalkeeper, he already sees the ball in the goal, hits and … by!Blimey! Ivanov got into a galosh!.
The two boys who became the heroes of Yeralash were let down by stupidity and arrogance. Knowing the reasons and understanding the meaning of the expression, you can make any sentence. Readers only have to want and anything can be achieved.
In order not to sit in a galosh, you need:
- Evaluate your strength soberly. And never consider yourself smarter than others. It's the cure for self-confidence.
- Take your time and think carefully. Otherwise, if you follow the above two rules, then you can forget about stupidity, it is not terrible for a person in this case.
And anyway, even if you build all the rational snares for life, you cannot go a long way without losses. One way or another, a person, unwittingly, will fall into a mess (a synonym for the expression in question). Losses and falls are inseparable from the essence of life. For better or worse, we all know what a galosh is not in the everyday, but in the existential sense. And this experience makes us stronger in spirit, it tempers our will and hones our character. So, a person should not be afraid of galoshes / galoshes / puddles, no matter how black and deep it is at first glance. King Solomon had universal wisdom: "This too shall pass." Time flows like water, or disappears like sand, but the main thing is that it takes both good and bad with it.
