What does the phrase "a lot of money" mean?

Question: Robinsonade – Is it something neutral, positive or negative?

The history of the phraseology "catnip"

Our smaller brothers have always played an important role in the physical and spiritual development of man. Including they influenced the formation of language. In the process of domestication of animals and further close coexistence with them, people closely observed their habits. Over time, many phraseological expressions mentioning animals have fixed in the Russian language.

In this article we will consider the origin of the phraseology "kot napkal", which is especially beloved by Russian-speaking people.

History of phraseology

The official history of the origin of the phraseology "cat napkal" is based on the analysis and further rethinking of the behavior of the pet. Long observations have shown that it is not characteristic for a cat to cry or shed tears. The reinterpreted image is formed by means of the folklore technique "nebyvalshchina". This version is scientific and is fixed in the Dictionary of Phraseological Expressions of the Russian language.

The second version refers us to the Arabic language. According to the legend, the phraseological expression came from the phrase used by Arab traders "koti nailak", with the meaning "to stop receiving any money. During the trades, the Russians heard this phrase, very much in tune with the expression "kot naiblak" and, supposedly, began to use it in their own speech. You can come across this version on the Internet. It has no scientific evidence and is not recorded in the dictionary.

Associations for the word "cat&raquo

• – If only there were something to buy," says Yastrebov, who never looked too closely into his own pockets. – There's not much of your gold… But my gold will be looking back at you. The same Kishkin will buy from my prospectors… Right, Andron Yevstratych? You've had your hand in the treasury…

The phrase "a lot of money" in sentences.

• – We're actually kind of dying," he said. – There's not much time ♪ and we ain't got no time ♪. But you go ahead and say it. Besides, I'm the pilot on this boat. And if you ruined it…
• It's a problem to buy a business, too, because at the time. I didn't have any money saved up..
• – Come on, what did you put in there if it was impossible to raise it? – I asked, yawning. – I mean, you don't have ♪ you don't have much ♪!
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Synonyms for the phrase "a lot of stuff

Associations for the word "cat & raquo

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Cat mop

A cat whimpered Prost. Hieron. Very little of anything or anyone. – There is no point in you, Ivan Alexeevich, referring to the critics, – said Gorky with annoyance. – We don't have a lot of real critics, only a few. Are the rest of them critics? (Kuprina-Jordan. The Years of Youth). – I will not be silent! We don't have much bread left, and you keep him, you hunchbacked devil, feeding him every day. (Sholokhov. The Quiet Don).

Phraseological Dictionary of Russian Literary Language. – M.: Astril, AST . A. I. Fedorov . 2008 .

THE CAT CRIED.

It is meant a situation in which items of property, products, substances (Z), experiences, minds etc. (Р), persons (Y) is much less than necessary or expected. It is spoken with disapprovingly, if the action seems reprehensible to the speaker. Unform. ✦ Z-a <R, Y-ov> mop. neim. As tale. The order of the word-components fixed.

It was hard to get money. The money in the order of the Grand Palace was a pile of it.The Crimean War had swallowed it all up. A.N. Tolstoy, Peter the First.…and I have no money… not a penny to my name.. I have no money for more than three cakes. М. Zoshchenko, The Aristocrat..

From year to year there are droughts, bad harvests, and not much land. Not a penny to spare.! С. Wanderer, Shackles.

Here, eat. Salts, really, Not a lot of bread.and it's not stale bread. Katerina Fedoseyevna <. > put a pinkish, salty piece under the cat's bench, right in the teeth. А. Yashin, Girlfriend..

– That's not for me to judge. I don't have much political experience myself. not enough.. А. Chakovsky, The Roads We Choose.

Up to the clouds, but not too clever not enough. Н. Brykin, Atonement..

The club is not bad. But you don't have a lot of cultural work. not enough.. Б. Poor, Girls.

Practice shows that the rights of immigrants not a dime a dozen. MK, 2001.

It makes no sense to take him, it is too much trouble to put him in jail, and the evidence is scarce. Not a lot of evidence.But he could be a good informer. П. Dashkova, No One's Crying..

They realized, of course, by the volleys, that we're not enough of us.and let's surround us. С. Sergeev-Tsensky, Lavender.

– Ivan Alexeyevich [Bunin], you refer to your critics for nothing," said Gorky with annoyance. – "We don't have not a lot of them.and only a few of them. Are the rest of them critics? Л. Kuprina-Jordanian, Years of Youth.

Where did the expression "Cat's piss" come from?

Language is inconceivable without idioms. Surely many of us have heard the expression "horse in apples," "dog in the hay," "stupid as a goose. And there is also an expression that sounds funny to some, but strange to others: "a pig in a poke. It is a phrase used to describe an acute deficit, or lack of something: "We have no money," for example.

The origin of the expression is not difficult to understand: cats have been domesticated thousands of years ago and lived next to people even more than other livestock. A cat could also represent the gods: the Egyptian goddess Bastet had a cat's head, and the Slavs could take the form of a cat as the god Veles. Cats were always kept close to the house as a catcher of mice and a protector: the cat, according to legend, could negotiate with the spirits that dwell on the places where the home was built. That's how the tradition was born to have a cat first at housewarming. That's probably why there's so much attention to these animals.

Of course, no one has ever seen tears in a cat's eyes. The profuse secretion of eye fluid occurs only when the animal is sick. Moreover, such a phenomenon in cats is observed more often than in other pets, and why exactly the cat had the honor to "cry" about the acute deficit, we can only guess.

However, there is another version, rather exotic. It is connected to the so-called "difficulties of translation. This is a direct analogy with "The Jolly Roger," which was born as a result of an English misunderstanding. The same may have been true of the Slavs. In Arabic there is an expression "kat nailak," which literally means "not enough money."

Probably the eastern peoples, whose source of material wealth was abruptly drying up, compared themselves to weeping animals. It was as inconceivable as a dramatic dip in income.

When does a cat cry?

Why is it that when they want to say that something is very little, they say "not much"?

Answered by Roman Telpov, Associate Professor of Pushkin State Institute of Russian Language, Ph.:

– This colloquial and joking expression in the phraseological dictionaries really means "very little, insufficient quantity". The situation underlying this phraseological expression is very simple: no one has seen a crying cat. Therefore, this image in the figurative sense can mean something extremely insufficient. And the perception of a cat as a cunning, sneaky animal, which should not be trusted, only strengthens the impression of so little.

By the way, this expression belongs to the type of phraseological-alogisms, which depict an unbelievable, "upside down" world. Here are other examples of such expressions: "to get away with it", "to carry water in a sieve", "needs like a wolf's tie" (variants: "like a cow's saddle", "like a fish's umbrella"). The main feature of these word combinations: they emphasize the absurdity of the situation.

Related words and expressions

• People: pawpaw, pooch, leader, werewolf, dogcatcher
• Places: eye, mink, cat, enclosure, aviary
• Objects: coat, undercoat, tassel, ponce, ball
• Actions: purring, puppy, purring, meow, licking
• Abstract concepts: fluffiness, blink, common, eat, distemper

• – I'd like to have something to buy," Yastrebov, who never looked too closely, pecked away. – Not much of your gold… But my gold will be looking back at you. The same Kishkin will buy from my prospectors… Right, Andron Yevstratych? You've had your hand in the treasury…

Combinability of the word "cat

The meaning of the phrase "catfish&raquo

mop mop (colloquial name) – very little. I do not have enough money. See also cat.

Propositions with the phrase "mop-up

• – We're actually kind of dying," he said. – There's not much time Lots and lots of time. But you go ahead and say it. Besides, I'm on this boat as a pilot. And if you ruined it…
• Buying a business was a problem, too, and at the time, the savings I didn't have any money saved up..
• – Come on, what did you put in there if it was impossible to raise it? – I asked, yawning. – I mean, you don't have ♪ you don't have much ♪!
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The meaning of the phrase "cat crying&raquo

Cat mop (colloquial nom.) – very little. I do not have enough money. See also cat.

The meaning of the word "cat

The meaning of the word "cry

BEAUTIFUL, –weep, –cry; past. weeping, –can, -a, -o; coll. 1. ( (usually in short, past participle). Conj. To cause redness, swelling (eyes) with tears, tears.

The phrase with the phrase "as if a cat had cried.

• But not more, for there is only one charterman, and ship's craftsmen like a pile of them.sighed the voivod.
• And you have not even as a pile of old men.…
• Not only did you send them for a second higher education, but the money and no money at all..
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Synonyms for the phrase "not much in the way of money

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cat mop

mop. uncouth. Very little (of very little of any one or something). = A drop in the sea, on the fingers you can count <count, count>, one-two <da> and a handful, with a goose. ≠ I can't see the end-edge(s) <don't see, no> (in 3 signs), not a lot, as much <soul> as you like (in 1 sign), as abundant, as a dime a dozen. Who's what? The buyers, the people present, the knowledge, the experience… I'm a dime a dozen.

And I don't have a lot of money. At most, I have enough for three cakes. (M. Zoshchenko.)

Our huts were next to each other, and we had the same amount of land – both of us had nothing. (V. Belov.)

Training phraseological dictionary. – M.: AST . Е. A. Bystrova, A. P. Okuneva, N. M. Shansky. 1997 .