Today's duty is to consider a topic that is entertaining, but ambiguous. Let's talk about swearing - the stable phrase "out of mind." We learn the meaning and certain conditions of use, in the final we are waiting for sentences with phraseological units.
Meaning
A little preface first. It is no secret that the human body, although it contains an immortal soul, is subject to aging and decay, or, to put it poetically, decadence. In the information society, a person ages, probably even earlier, faster. At least he is very tired. The news bombards him relentlessly every day. And there is nothing surprising in the fact that a relatively young person can now survive out of his mind. By the way, here's what's important: a similar epithet is used in relation to any non-standard or abnormal behavior at any age.
But if we look in the dictionary, it says the following: "Stupid with old age." That is, the dictionary insists that this is typical only for senile dementia. But, of course, here we are not talking about a specific disease, but about what a personcompletely tactless reminders of his age and the inconveniences associated with it. But after all, not everything is so bad, sometimes old age brings with it not stupidity, but wisdom. True, sometimes she comes alone, that is, a person does not change much, even washed over the years he remains the same.
This is what they say about being absent or in anger
Let's catch on to the tactlessness of the idiom "get out of your mind" and develop the topic. There is one rule in this regard. And it is extremely important in the context of the topic. It will never or almost never be said about a person who is in the room at the moment. That is, it is quite possible to imagine a situation when two people are talking and one says to the other, suppose, about his boss, who is already in his years: “Yes, the old man has completely lost his mind: does he make us go to work on time, count?” Let us leave the question of the upbringing of the speaker on his conscience. But let's imagine that such an employee will tell the boss himself, or at least in a situation where his absence is not guaranteed to be one hundred percent. This can't be right, can it?
Another moment when a person says this in anger. People often use the phrase "out of their mind" when they want to express the utmost degree of indignation. The example is a bit odd, but we want to avoid being cruel, so let the reader be patient.
A person quits smoking, but this process is difficult for him. Therefore, in a nervous situation, he inserts a pen into his mouth and sets fire to it, it melts and stains his shirt. He understands what he's doingwhen it's too late. A wife, seeing traces of ink, may well say: “Have you already managed to get out of your mind, why did you try to smoke a pen?!”
You will never say that about a really sick person
Let's imagine that a person really has senile dementia. Here it is worth considering, but the person himself feels good? Actually, this is built into the simplest code of conduct - you can’t laugh at what is obvious: appearance, illness, some other shortcomings. Such actions primarily offend its initiator, and not the object of ridicule.
Offers
Yes, we already had situations that we considered in order to better understand the meaning of the stable phrase "out of mind", but now the time has come for specific sentences-illustrations with it:
- Father, what are you talking about? Find me a job, why? After all, you have a good salary. You know, I suspect, or rather, I'm afraid, but are you out of your mind?
- Look, I can't survive out of (what's his?) mind because I'm too young for it: I'm only 120 years old, and I heard that they begin to survive at least when they pass the milestone of 150.
- Yes, yes, maybe our boss is eccentric. But you leave these dirty hints that he survived, they say, out of his mind. This, I tell you, is nonsense. He, our boss, is a great man, even despite his age of 95.
It is clear that the topic is sad. But it is difficult to distance oneself from the topic of age when the dictionaryinsists on a specific meaning. We only hope that our jokes were not too rude.
