"Language without bones" - phraseological. Value and examples of use

When a person is told "Yes, he has a tongue without bones," this means that he likes to talk, and his speeches are empty and empty. But in fact, it does not always happen, sometimes someone not only loves, but also knows how to support the conversation. Let us analyze the history and examples of the use of phraseology.

Origin

From the modern point of view it is strange that an undoubted medical fact (absence of bones in the language) is treated as an insult. All is explained simply. Before people were not as educated as they were today, it was believed that only the bones were tired in a person, they were aching, they were sick and bad, they needed rest. And if a person has a tongue without bones, then he does not need rest. He is able to work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

Use

Indeed, basically the expression carries a negative meaning. That is, someone who does not have bones in the language, does not have time for the speed of his body, so he says countless nonsenses that offend people. But we must understand that this is not because the "speaker" wants to offend someone, but because he simply can not follow the flow of words. Why put offense, because he has a tongue without bones, that you take from him.

But sometimes someone who describes another person in this way does not mean anything bad, except that he likes to talk and maybe does it masterfully. Although the dictionary is harsh, and it gives only one meaning of this phraseology. But on that he and the dictionary to fix the language norm, but we are talking about living language practice, in which the concept of "norm" is shifting. In other words, a tongue without bones is not always a bad thing. But we will analyze what did not please the talkative to people.

Why is talk and lack of mind firmly connected in the popular consciousness?

It should be remembered that most phraseological units are the result of folk art, and the main consumer of stable expressions is most often the mythical "common man". After all, spoken phrases, honed by time, are not only accurate expressions, but reservoirs of folk wisdom and philosophy. If the object and subject of creativity is a simple peasant (the majority of phraseological theories originated at a time when a woman did not play a significant role in social life), then the ideal of the expressions is appropriate. Even now it is believed that a real man is, first of all, an embodied action, he does not waste time talking, and sincere sensitivity is "for girls" (if the reader at this site smiled, then he too was thinking about it).

There is no point in developing this idea, and it is so clear that the ability to talk and talkativeness in the public consciousness differs little and is given to those women who are not too smart. For some reason it is believed that an intelligent person will not waste words in vain.

The question of why this meaning in the expression "tongue without bones", the meaning of which we have disassembled, does not have a definitive answer, so we suggest the reader to reflect on this at his leisure.