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Author: Maria Znobishcheva
Philologist, candidate of philological sciences, poet, member of the Union of Writers of Russia. Publication date:09/23/2021
What biological subspecies do they mean when they talk about white flies? Or maybe these are relatives of white crows? Who or what is called this? Let's imagine and analyze!
What do people call white flies?
Quiz about snow and winter.
Magic snow covered the earth. He carefully covered the fields, meadows, and forests. What is snow? Silvery fluff, transparent lenses. People call slowly falling snow (often the first snow) “white flies.”
“Snow and snow, all one, eternally virgin snow, Yes, purple patterns of chained rivers, Yes, dark pine forests.” Author: L.A. May
The Snow Quiz contains 21 questions. All questions have been answered.
1. What is snow? Answer: a type of precipitation
2. Which country is the snowiest? Answer: Russia
3. What is a tiny particle of snow called? Answer: snowflake
4. What is the weight of one snowflake? Answer: approximately one milligram
5. Can snow be slippery? Answer: yes
6. Does the snow creak or crack? Answer: they usually say that snow creaks, but frost crackles
7. What animals love snow? Answer: polar bear, lynx, deer, penguin
8. There are birds that love to tumble in the snow. What are their names? Answer: kea, a bird of the parrot family
9. What is the name of a large pile of snow? Answer: snowdrift
10. Are there people on earth who have never seen snow? Answer: yes
11. What kind of snow can it be? Answer: loose, fluffy, wet, in the form of snow porridge, in the form of flakes
12. What snow removal machines do you know? Answer: snow blowers, snow blowers, snow blowers, sweepers, snow loaders and other machines
13. Give lines from poems containing the word “snow.” Answer: “...snow fell only in January” A.S. Pushkin
“In the morning the cat brought the first snow on its paws! First snow! It has the Taste and smell of the first snow! First snow!" Author: Y.Akim
“White, fluffy snow swirls in the air and quietly falls to the ground and lies down.” Author: I.Surikov
14. What phrases with the word “snowy” do you know? Answer: snow drifts, snow storm, snow avalanche, snow woman, snow cover
15. Who is the author of the lines? “The snow is spinning, the snow is falling - snow! Snow! Snow! Animals and birds are happy about the snow, and, of course, man!” Answer: Sergey Mikhalkov “Blank verses”
16. Is there snow on Mars? Answer: yes
17. What proverbs and sayings with the word “snow” do you know? Answer: “a lot of snow means a lot of bread” “We need it like last year’s snow” “You can’t beg snow from him in winter”
18. Name words consisting of 8 letters with the word “snow” Answer: snowmobile, snowfall, snowman
19. Which bird has the word “snow” in its name? Answer: bullfinch
20. Complete the pyramid:
Snow Snowball Snowman………Snowmelting Snowblower Snow retention
21. Does it happen that it snows in Africa? Answer: it happens
Winter-winter stays in Russia for a long time. And he will let the snowstorms show their temper and will not spare the snow, and will allow the cold wind to roam. Today we will talk in more detail about winter. Do we know everything about her? All questions in the Winter quiz have been answered.
1. Daylight hours in winter... Short + Long Medium
2. The earth receives heat in winter... A lot Little + Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little
3. What kind of precipitation usually occurs in winter? Snow + Hail Rain
4. How do we speak? Snow sings Snow creaks + Snow chirps
5. What determines the speed at which snowflakes fall to the ground? From the mass of snowflakes + Shapes of snowflakes + Size of snowflakes +
6. Mark the correct examples of winter phenomena in inanimate nature: Frost + Rain Blizzard +
7. Why don’t plant seeds freeze over the winter? Because under the snow the temperature is higher than on bare ground + Because the seeds are hardened Because the seeds seem to be “sleeping”
8. How do animals prepare for winter? They make food reserves + Insulate their burrows + Accumulate a fat layer +
9. Indicate the correct statements: In winter, the fur of a hare is white + In winter, the coat of a squirrel is warmer + The hedgehog changes its spines in winter
Origin of phraseology
The idiom comes from observations of nature. The life of our ancestors was entirely determined by natural cycles, and therefore every nuance of weather changes was carefully noted.
The disappearance of ordinary black flies indicated that autumn had arrived, and the appearance of white flies indicated that winter had come. Thus, the phraseological unit, similar in meaning, “Tolerate until the white flies”, meaning “to endure until the cold weather”, contains a reproach for the sluggish owners who did not harvest the crop from the field in time.
From the point of view of language, a process of metaphorization occurred: the property of a living being (insect) passed on to designate a natural phenomenon.
It occurred to an attentive person to compare the first snowfall with the movement of a swarm of flies: the fluffy first snowflakes fall large, scattered, rarely, at low speed - as if heavy flies are circling alone against the backdrop of bare dark earth.
This cannot be compared with the mosquito-like flickering of a real thick snowfall in the second half of December or with a continuous white February downpour.
What do people call “white flies”?
Who was the first to use this figurative expression, what phraseological unit exists with it?
This is my favorite poem from childhood, which I always remembered when winter came. Then in kindergarten they taught him when the snowy weather began. I think Rylsky was the first to use this figurative expression “white flies”, the phraseology of which is snowflakes.
The answer to this question in the children's New Year's quiz will be the third option. People call snowflakes “white flies”. It is not known who was the first to use this expression, people could have said this 200 years ago, but in literature this is how Maxim Gorky described snow in his story “Summer”, written in 1909:
As far as I personally know, snowflakes are popularly called white flies. I have heard more than once: White flies fly when it snows. So here the third option is correct, in my opinion. These are snowflakes, just relevant, it’s winter now.
People have already named the correct option, but I simply cannot ignore this question. I won’t write everything I think about Rylsky’s alleged authorship, otherwise I’ll be banned.
Popular names for white flies include falling snow and snowflakes. No one will answer who first came up with this figurative expression. The Russian people came up with it. Like other sayings, proverbs and epithets.
And I will now prove that this expression existed among the people long before any Rylsky ones.
In Dahl’s dictionary, published thirty years before Rylsky’s birth, the article “fly” gives the following example:
In addition, this expression is found in the novel by Melnikov-Pechersky, published in 1871, that is, more than 20 years before Rylsky’s birth:
And also in Doroshevich’s novel “Sakhalin”, this is 1903, Rylsky is 8 years old:
Andrei Bely in 1905 (Rylsky is 10 years old):
We find the expression “white flies” in the works of Gorky, Prishvin, Merezhkovsky, and so on, and so on. Everything long before Rylsky.
The round dance of “white flies” is repeatedly mentioned in the works of Russian classics.
A children's New Year's quiz asks a riddle-question: what are people popularly called “white flies”? This popular expression is still used today and is called snowflakes; it is found in literature and poems as snowflakes - “white flies”.
In the works of Russian classics M. Gorky, N. Nekrasov, A. Usachev, comparisons of snowflakes with “white flies” are found.
Correct answer: Snowflakes .
snowfall, these are white bjols, oh! flies) the peculiarity of white flies is the slow fall of the so-called “shovel” snow without wind, with the shining of the sun they become a truly beautiful sight. Falling snow - white flies.
Any of the birds you listed can be shot, but in a stable combination, which is distinguished by the fact that it has not only a direct but also a figurative meaning, it is the word “sparrow” . This is what they say about a seasoned and experienced person who cannot be fooled.
When something somewhere is superfluous, unnecessary, for example, an object that stands out from the general ensemble in the interior of a room or a vulgar decoration on the neck of a woman dressed in a strict business suit, in popular speech there are apt figurative constructions about this “like the fifth wheel of a cart.” "or "like a dog's fifth leg."
These phraseological units are also used when they want to make it clear that someone’s proposal is unnecessary, for example: “I need this part-time job like a dog needs a fifth leg!”
To probe means to use a probe. Probes come in different sizes and functionality. But most likely the first probes were ordinary sticks and branches, with the help of which the surrounding surface of the planet was checked for passability (walking through swamps, deep snow, surfaces flooded with water, etc.)
Over time, the expression “to probe the waters” acquired a second meaning similar to “to probe the situation”: i.e. using “measuring instruments” (questions, studying available data) to find out what can and should be done in this or that case in order to “go” further, spending a minimum of effort.
and about the spinal cord, Gennady Khazanov beautifully voiced it in the miniature “Striptease”, there, a Georgian who was in “high spirits”, accurately determined with the “spinal cord” that the dancer is a “blandine”. And since then, this concept has spread to people and the masses.
But to feel someone else's gaze, someone else's thoughts and aspirations, a great skill - from the field of subtle matters and not everyone is given.
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The appearance of snow flakes
It turns out that the reason for the appearance of the phraseological unit is the fall of the first snow on the ground in the autumn. How to explain the reason for the snow? Where do “white flies” come to us from?
If you resort to the help of science and try to understand the reason for the appearance and formation of snowflakes, you can come to the following conclusion. Snow is a special type of precipitation that is formed when small raindrops freeze. “White flies” fly to earth from the sky in the form of frozen rain. Snow consists of individual snowflakes, which in appearance are similar to six-pointed stars.
The first condition for the appearance of so-called “white flies” on earth is the onset of cold weather. The main condition for the appearance of precipitation in the form of snow is considered to be a temperature of 0 ºC, at which water begins to turn into ice. In the sky at this temperature, rain clouds freeze, after which the usual raindrops turn into “white flies.”
Due to the fact that there are a huge number of different shapes of snowflakes, scientists have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to meet two snowflakes with an identical pattern. 95% of such precipitation consists of air. It is for this reason that if there are no strong gusts of wind outside, the speed of falling snow is about 0.9 km/h.
It should be noted that through research in countries such as Norway, Finland and Sweden, it turned out that there are more than 180 words that are used to refer to snow and ice. In the Eskimo language there are slightly fewer such expressions - about 40. Thanks to them, people indicate the quality of snow and its location.
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What did the people call Saint Simeon the Stylite?
Word horizontally (12 letters). In Rus' there was a custom to hold funerals for flies, cockroaches and bedbugs. They did this in the fall, on the Feast of the Exaltation, on the Intercession, and also on the day of Simeon the Stylite. What did the people call this Saint?
Semyon Letoprovedets is a day in the national calendar among the Slavs, falling on September 1 (14). The name of the day comes from the name of St. Simeon the Stylite. Celebrated predominantly by Orthodox Slavs. On this day, rituals were performed to mark the approach of autumn.
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Synonyms
There are many poetic proverbs, sayings, and riddles about the first snow. Here are some of the most famous idiomatic expressions:
- — Don’t let grass grow after autumn, don’t let flowers grow in the snow;
- - Not the snow that sweeps, but the one that comes from above;
- “The summer has passed, the autumn has passed, and now it’s snowballing.”
By the way, the last proverb gave birth to the phraseological unit “out of the blue,” conveying the suddenness of change for the worse. Winter is beautiful, but the main thing for the people is that they need to prepare for it (for example, the sleigh had to be made in the summer). For zealous owners, winter is good when the bins are full, the firewood is stored, the sleigh is oiled, and the horses are well-fed. By the way, what else is on the list? And it’s not far from white flies!
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Stay with your nose
Not getting what you want, not achieving results, working in vain, being deceived.
Small small less
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Scapegoat
A person punished for an offense he did not commit.
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