The expressiveness of the Russian language is often quite difficult to understand not only by foreigners, but even by compatriots. A huge number of figurative expressions, phraseological units, colloquial variants, double and triple meanings turns speech into an intricate labyrinth. For example, the very simple phrase "furrow your brows" actually turns out to be very interesting for linguistic research. How to use this expression correctly? When is it better to choose a synonym?
Expressive facial expressions
First of all, of course, this is a description of a mimic expression that means several different emotions at once. How and why can you frown your eyebrows? If you bring your eyebrows down to the bridge of your nose, you will get an angry facial expression, which in most cases is what they mean when using the phrase we are considering.
You can frown not only in an angry mood. Many people are like thisway express their concentration, seriousness, thoughtfulness. Mimic manifestations are ambiguous, it is natural for a person to replace emotions or combine them in the most bizarre way. In literature, it is often found - as a strong artistic device - the phrase "laughter through tears", when someone laughs not because he is having fun, but from grief or pain. Probably, every person will find a situation in their memory when the face expressed not what was going on in the soul, but completely different feelings, like a protective mask.
Using facial expressions in phraseological phrases
It is worth noting that the expression "frown" is redundant in itself, because nothing else can frown. You can not frown your cheeks, ears or lips - this is done exclusively with eyebrows. At the same time, the eyes, smile or just a look can be gloomy, that is, correspond to the emotion in which a person just makes a characteristic grimace expressing his mood.
In what cases are expressions describing facial expressions used in literature or just in everyday life? When you just can not do without the phrase "frown"? The meaning of a phraseological unit is directly related to the basic emotion that accompanies a grimace. Therefore, you can often hear advice not to frown even in relation to an invisible interlocutor, on the phone or in virtual communication. The phrase "And now he frowns" is used in the sense of "and now he is angry" (or offended, or sad).
Different waysfrown
To emphasize the shades of emotion, a qualifying adjective is often used. You can frown your eyebrows menacingly, angrily, sternly, sadly, sadly, cheerfully, concentratedly, resolutely. If you wish, you can invent your own way and reason for the specified facial expression, and none of them will turn out to be strange, because human emotions cannot be considered unambiguous.
Appropriateness of the expression
If in poetry and fiction you can use phraseological units for figurativeness and convexity of the narrative, then in some cases it is recommended to change the text a little so as not to look ridiculous. In an official appeal, the artistry of images is generally not recommended - it is considered redundant and inappropriate, therefore it is unlikely that a lawyer can advise someone to “frown their eyebrows”. It is better to choose synonyms in such a way as to exclude the duality of reading, which is permissible in entertaining texts or in high poetry.
It is worth remembering that this is an emotional phraseological unit, especially when it comes to a written appeal. The reader himself will add an emotion that will ask for subtext, and if he decides that he is being bullied, it will only be the fault of the compiler of the text. Therefore, instead of “do not frown,” it is better to sincerely ask not to be offended, apologize and come to an agreement.
The words that indicate emotion, which were listed above in the form of adjectives, help to avoid discrepancies. Not "angrily frowned", but "angry". In most cases, this is sufficient.
Figurative expression
Phraseologisms are the most fertile tool for creating artistic images. It is they that allow you to outline emotions with just a couple of strokes, thanks to which the paintings created by the writer or poet become alive, begin to breathe, and are filled with colors. “Frowning one’s eyebrows” is a phraseological unit with a dark and strict emotional color, therefore, if such a facial expression is attributed to a gloomy evening, then readers do not have bewilderment, on the contrary, a deep understanding appears. Despite the fact that the evening has no face, no eyebrows, he has nothing to frown.
Frowning eyebrows in a figurative sense can be anything - a pine forest, sky, evening, wind. When the poet describes a gloomy day, he has in mind only the emotions that arise in the observer. When creating a literary work, the author may be somewhat carried away by figurative expressions, and then it becomes difficult to understand the heaps of metaphors behind which the meaning is lost. With moderate use, the text, on the contrary, acquires the qualities necessary to influence the reader and bring joy.
