Every person in a conversation with someone at least once noticed how the interlocutor uses sayings, catchphrases and proverbs to more accurately describe a situation or problem. Or used them myself. Thanks to the use of catchphrases and proverbs, we can make our speech bright, emotional, figurative and expressive.
It often happens that a person, using this or that expression in a conversation, may not fully understand its meaning. Or even perceive it differently. This leads to stupid situations and misunderstandings between the interlocutors.
Historical reference of phraseology
Consider one of the common expressions: "bring it to a white heat." It has its roots deep in the times when forges were built in Russia. When products were forged by heating in furnaces and remelting metal.
While spending their time in burning work, blacksmiths noticed that metal needed to go through several stages of heating before it could be smelted. The first one is redcolor, the second is yellow, and the third is white. It is by the white color that the blacksmith judges the readiness of the product for remelting.
Meaning of phraseology
The subject of the idiom "bring to white heat" is a person brought to the highest point of his patience. The dictionary of phraseological units interprets this expression as “to deprive oneself of self-control, to anger, to enrage.”
The meaning of the phrase "bring to white heat" indicates to us the gradual accumulation of negative emotions, worries about this, the lack of a solution to incoming problems and, as a result, an explosion comparable to a volcanic eruption.
Metal goes through several stages before being smelted. In the same way, a person periodically experiences unpleasant emotions in everyday life that accumulate in the subconscious. Subsequently, one of them becomes the cause of tears, scandal, hysteria and, possibly, a mental breakdown.
Synonyms of the catchphrase
Synonymous with the expression "bring to white heat", the meaning of which we learned, can be attributed to the phrase "infuriate". But is it possible to identify them so confidently? Let's figure it out.
On the one hand, you can gradually reach the boiling point, that is, white heat. This process is similar to winding a thread around a ball. On the other hand, each person has different psycho-emotional characteristics and character. Someone can endure a year or two, and someone explodes in a matter of seconds. From this we can conclude that like each metal has a different melting point,respectively, and time, and each person has a different supply of patience.
