The Russian language is rich in vivid, juicy expressions, which are not always understandable to those for whom it is not native. Foreigners will have to explain for a long time how it is to catch crows, without hunting for birds, tearing a goat like a sider, without touching any domestic animal. To the category of similar speech riddles it is possible to carry and "a stupid club".
Value is direct
What is a stupid club? Let's start with the first word in the phrase. Initially, this was the name of a large thick stick used for hunting animals or as weapons during a battle. They were used by people in the era of the primitive communal system. Then the club began to call not just any stick, but a specially crafted one: smoothly carved, refined from the edge that was taken by the palm, and thickened at the opposite end. The edge was usually rounded. Synonyms, now inadequate: "oryasina", "oak", "palitsa", "drone" (do not confuse with the dress code).
Stoersovaya is this?
Now about the second word in the word combination, the club is a stupid one. In the dictionary of Dahl and Ushakov this meaning is given: this is a tree that grows straight, straight, without bends and bends. In another way, "growing upright" - standing up, not laying down, not trailing to the ground. This means that the stupid cockpit is a special, even stick, quite a formidable weapon in the savage hands of a savage!
The Greek version
Let's continue our research. After all, it is far from over! The second interpretation of the term "Stupid Stupid" is associated with the Greek language. It was an obligatory subject in theological seminaries. But they learned most often, more precisely, just crammed this language, like the Old Slavonic, without much understanding, mechanically. Often, simply trying to adapt an alien morphological, derivational or phonetic model to the familiar Russian pattern. In Greek there is a word stauros - pile, pole, stake, stick. In the combination of a club, the quintessential adjective sounds clearly close to the Greek pattern. And if you take the literal meaning, you get "a club made from stick, stake, etc.". As they say, quite a meaningful combination!
From direct to portable
And in terms of idiomatic fusion, stable expressions, which means "stupid club"? As is known, the figurative meaning of the word-object is formed on the basis of certain associative connections, analogies between it and other objects, in something close. In colloquial speech in phraseology, " stupid stupid " value is as follows: stupid, dull, dull person. It refers to a common genus, i.e. Applies to people both male and female. Synonyms, as a rule, stylistically lowered: a fool, a fool, a dumbass, an ignoramus, a bald, without a king in his head, etc. And even the saying: "The power is there - you do not need the mind." Why such an understanding of phraseology? Apparently, the stupidity of a person, his inability to understand anything, was compared with the hardness, the "unbreakability" of a tree, especially strong rocks. Remember, in Gogol, the landowner Korobochka is called the "clubwood"! Those. Again we encounter a cudgel. The stupidity is explained as follows: how a tree grows straight, so a person perceives everything literally, narrowly thinks, can not abstract, understand something that goes beyond his horizons. In a word, he thinks straight. Or, going back to the Greco-Seminary option, with regard to man, the "stubborn club" is a "wooden man": unbreakable, to which nothing can be explained. By the way, among seminarians who studied many scholastic sciences, such copies were full! Antonyms phraseology will be words and stable combinations: intelligent, intelligent, intelligent, smart, wit, seven wits in the forehead.