In any agrarian society, the weather plays a decisive role. After all, it directly depends on how rich the harvest will be, therefore, a successful life until the new (next harvest). Heat is not the most favorable state of nature for farmers, because it is dry land, and "without rain, the grass does not grow." Therefore, one of the synonyms for the word "heat" is "inferno". Suppose that such a phenomenon of nature, due to 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 is a phraseological unit is known from the school bench. It is much more interesting to understand what phraseological means of the language are united under a common concept. Especially since it might help in our quest.
- Phraseological units, fusions, indivisible expressions: "Ared's eyelids", "alpha and omega".
- Stable expressions that can be divided while retaining the semantic meaning: "Indian summer", "grandmother'sfairy tales".
- A phraseologically related combination and a word with a free meaning: "to bet / like a fish on ice".
- Clichés, semantically separable words, proverbs and catchphrases: "a saucer with a golden border".
Origin and meaning of the word "heat"
This word is derived from the Proto-Slavic word heat, correlated with the ancient Indian "flame", originally meant burning coals and gradually, according to the quality of the impact on the environment, it began to be called hot air, which came from coals and other heat sources, including the sun. Later, the word "fever" began to mean elevated body temperature.
Heat - heated air from any source, heat. In a modern, slang term, a tense and unpredictable situation.
Oddities
If you turn to dictionaries, reference literature, both on paper and on the Internet, you will find that such an unfavorable weather forecast as heat, oddly enough, is poorly represented in folk word creation: phraseological units for 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 a person.
Let's try to find at least one idiom for the word "heat".
Looking for
There are three main common expressions in which a given word is represented in its initial form, they canbe called steady turns:
- heavy heat;
- Heat subsides/intensifies.
Besides, as a phraseological unit for the word "heat" you can bring the expression "hellish heat" (very strong). This is a paraphrase of the biblical expression "to burn in unquenchable fire." The synonymous connection between the word of interest to us and hellish hell arose when this phraseological unit appeared.
By the way, "heat" could be plural until the 20th century. And the ladies on hot days, vigorously waving their fans, languidly said: "Oh, what impossible heat has happened today."
Stable combinations using the word "heat" in foreign languages
Let's look further, maybe phraseologism with the word heat is more common in foreign languages? Since it is impossible to grasp the immensity, let us focus our attention 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 the heat (listen to criticism about yourself, corresponds to the Russian phraseological unit "get a scolding");
- heat under the collar (burst with anger);
- if you can't stand the heat, leave the kitchen (grabbed the tug - don't say it's not hefty).
"Dog heat" is a Greek idiom 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 Ikaria. Afterthe shepherd died, the god Dionysus turned the shepherd dog into the constellation Canis Major and placed it in the sky. The main star of the constellation was named Sirius. This constellation appears in the Greek sky during the hottest period of summer. Naturally, the ancients associated precisely its appearance with the intensification of the sun.
Conclusion
It is the same conclusion. Sometimes it is difficult to find phraseological units. By the word "heat" it was possible to pick up not so many stable expressions. But for the word "hand", for example, there are about 50 of them.
