What kind of phraseology can be chosen for the word "heat"?

In any agrarian society the weather plays a decisive role. After all, it directly depends on how rich the harvest will be, hence, a successful life before the new one (the next harvest). Heat is not the most successful state of nature for farmers, because it is dry, and "without rain and grass does not grow." Therefore, one of the synonyms for the word "heat" is "scorching". Suppose that such a phenomenon of nature because of its importance should be reflected in the Russian language by a large number of phraseological units. Is it so? Let's try to find phraseological units to the word "heat".

What is phraseology?

What is phraseology is known from the school bench. It is much more interesting to understand what phraseological means of language are united under the general concept. Moreover, it may help in our search.

1. Phraseological unity, fusion, indivisible expressions: "median eyelids", "alpha and omega".
2. Steady turns, which can be divided, retaining the semantic meaning: "Indian summer", "Grandma's tales."
3. A combination, phraseologically related, and a word with a free meaning: "beat the mortgage / like a fish on the ice."
4. Cliché, semantically separable words, proverbs and winged phrases: "saucer with a golden edge".

The origin and meaning of the word "heat"

This word - derived from the Proto-Slavic word heat, correlated with the ancient Indian "flame", originally designated burning coals and gradually, by the quality of the impact on the environment, it was also called hot air that emanated from coals and other sources of heat, including the sun . Later the word "fever" began to denote and elevated body temperature.

Heat - heated air from any source, heat. In the modern, slang term is a tense and unpredictable situation.

Oddities

If you look at dictionaries, reference books, both on paper and on the Internet, it will be found that such an unfavorable weather forecast as heat, strangely enough, is poorly represented in folk word-making: phraseological terms to this word are practically absent. Why? The fact is that most of the phraseological units in the Russian language characterize personal qualities, situations directly related to man.

Try to find at least one phraseology to the word "heat".

In search

There are three main commonly used expressions in which the given word is presented in its initial form, they can be called stable turns:

• heatwave;
• The heat decreases / intensifies.

In addition, as the phraseology to the word "heat" can be the expression "hell heat" (very strong). This is the paraphrase of the biblical expression "burn in fire unquenchable." The synonymous connection between the word of interest and the hellish hell was born when this phraseology appeared.

By the way, "heat" before the 20th century could be in the plural. And the ladies in hot days, fanning their wings, languidly said: "Oh, what kind of heat the impossible happened today."

Stable combinations using the word "heat" in foreign languages

Let's look further, maybe in foreign languages, the phraseology with the word heat is more common? Since it is impossible to embrace the immensity, we will focus our attention on the language of interethnic communication and Greek, since expressions from ancient Greek mythology have become phraseological units in many countries of the world.

• Take heat (listen to criticism about yourself, correspond to Russian phraseology "get nagging");
• Heat under the collar (bursting with anger);
• If you can not tolerate the heat, leave the kitchen (took hold of the ridge - do not say that it is not dumb).

"Dog fever" - Greek phraseology, meaning very strong heat (not the same as "dog cold"). Expression appeared in the vocabulary of the Greeks thanks to the myth of the death of the shepherd Ikaria. After the shepherd died, the god Dionysus turned the shepherd dog into the constellation of the Great Dog and placed it in the sky. The main star of the constellation was called Sirius. Constellation it appears on the Greek sky in the hottest period of summer. Naturally, the ancients linked it precisely with the appearance of the sun.

Conclusion

It is also a conclusion. Sometimes it is difficult to choose phraseology. By the word "heat" it was possible to select not so many stable expressions. But for the word "hand", for example, there are about 50 of them.