Corner linguist. Idioms, phrases, and etymology of the stable

[Игорь Гурьев]

Originally Posted by LCR

Avoir du blé, de l'oseille = have wheat, sorrel = have money

In Russian, some money is called "cabbage": in general, too broad green leaves.

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Originally Posted by LCR

Yes, I forgot, sorry. "interfere in their beans

But we can say and "Occupe-toi de tes haricots" = "Tend your beans".

Rather, they say "Occupe-toi de tes tes ognons", that I hear quite often from fraztsuzov

[LCR]

Originally Posted by Guriev, Igor

In Russian, some money is called "cabbage": in general, too broad green leaves.

Once I used that expression here in the forum, and I was told that it is hopelessly out of date - a problem of Russian, has long been living outside Russia, in particular, my.

Originally Posted by Guriev, Igor

Rather, they say "Occupe-toi de tes tes ognons", that I hear from fraztsuzov quite often

Say, and so and so.

But in the expression "C'est pas tes oignons" (this is not your case) to replace the onion beans really impossible

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Originally Posted by Guriev, Igor

Occupe-toi de tes tes ognons

Bow? Green or bulb?

[Маруся]

Originally Posted by LCR

L'œil cochon = pig eye

Well now! And said no. It is simply an expression in the Russian language has become another "art critics" value.

[LCR]

Originally Posted by Maroussia

Well that's it! And said no. It is simply an expression in the Russian language has become another "art history" value.

I'm sure not. "un oeil cochon" and "un oeil de cochon" - very different things.

"L'oeil cochon", as I have said, means "lard, vicious look.

Just supplement "cochon", use after the noun without a preposition, means "swinish, depraved, licentious, lewd, sometimes -" vile ":
"une blague cochonne" - dirty anecdote, "un film cochon" - a pornographic film, "un vieux cochon" - the old lecher, "un tour de cochon" - vile, etc.

Words borrowed from foreign languages, often changing the meaning and expression - almost never.

[Маруся]

The expression "pig eyes" - as the worst insult to the collector in the Russian language has more than a century, since most times, when Russian society spoke French as a mother, and gathered the best collections of French art.
Here's how later Andrei Goncharov delicately explained the significance of this expression of their students in VHUTEMAS:
"We believe in what we see, but we see it, what we believe. This vision is selective. Maybe it's selective vision is the real vision, which distinguishes the artist?" And when the French say that a man pig eyes, it means that such a person looks and sees nothing, he just fixes the "patterns".

[LCR]

Originally Posted by Maroussia

The expression "pig eyes" - as the worst insult to the collector in the Russian language has more than a century, since most times, when Russian society spoke French as a mother, and gathered the best collection French art.

Exactly. That is why I am confident that it can not be associated with the aforementioned French expression.

People with fluent speakers of any language, is not peculiar to distort the meaning of the translation of idiomatic expressions of the language, as often happens with people who speak the language poorly.
In addition, "l'oeil cochon" - a special layer of language, is very familiar.

[Маруся]

LCR, so therein lies my question: how is the correct expression (in this sense) sounds in French? The fact that it came to us from the French language - no doubt because there is no ...

[LCR]

Originally Posted by Maroussia

LCR, so therein lies my question: how is the correct expression (in this sense) sounds in French? The fact that it came to us from the French language - no doubt because there ...

I can only repeat that such an expression in French is not, and that no doubt that it came not from the French.