Today we will talk about a sustainable expression "through the sleeves". The meaning of phraseology is directly related to the history of Russian clothing.
Of course, doing daily work in such athe suit was extremely uncomfortable. If you want the business to argue, you need to roll up your sleeves. In comfortable clothes, you can work hard, not sparing your strength. About such an employee we say that he is doing something, "rolling up his sleeves", that is, actively, persistently, with great zeal.
Appeared in Russia and the opposite in meaningstable expression. It meant a careless, irresponsible attitude to work, a desire to do all the typing-blunder, inaccurately, with laziness, that is, "through the sleeves." The meaning of phraseology today is clear even to a child, as it has become truly winged. It is actively used by writers in literary works, teachers at school and parents for educational purposes. Negligent, lazy people, through their sleeves, read, write, learn, relate to their duties, sew, build, manage - in short, perform any work.
From the point of view of grammar, the word "after"the obsolete form of a short participle from the verb "to descend". Today we would say "down the sleeves", using the girw. Since idioms do not require punctuation, we do not single out a stable expression on the letter "through the sleeves" (the meaning of phraseology in this case does not matter).
To the expression "to work after the sleeves" it is possiblepick up synonymous turns: do something carelessly, carelessly, negligently, carelessly, unconscionably, with laziness, with coolness, horrible, through the stump-deck, sham-roll, somehow, just to get rid of; hacking; to be lazy; to work from under the stick.
It is always interesting to conduct a comparative analysisexisting analogues of this or that phraseology in other languages of the world. So, instead of the expression "to do after the sleeves", the Englishman will say That work with the left hand - "work with the left hand". If you are right handed, any case performed by the left hand, indeed, will cause difficulties, and the result will be unsatisfactory. Try to sew a button with your left hand, write a letter, cut out a smooth paper figure!
Language studies indicate that the word"Left" in general in many adverbs was often associated with something bad, unsuccessful, even diabolical. By the way, before the advent of Leskov's story, the left-hander was called just an inept worker, who has all fallen from his hands. But the writer managed to invest a completely different meaning in the name of the Tula master. By the way, among the Russian synonyms of the phraseology under consideration there is this: "how to do with your left foot." It has an even more negative connotation of meaning. The point is that the work is done so badly, as if a person acted not with a hard-working right-hand man, but with little to what suitable left foot.
Other nations also have such a notion -"Work through your sleeves." The synonym for expression in the Belarusian language is "Rabić yak wet wretch" (work as it burns wet). The following expressions were also used: "Rabić yak not svіmі rukamі" (to do as if not with one's own hands), "Rabitsy zaplyushchyўshy vochy" (making eyes closed), as well as "Sarvarku adrablyats" (to practice sharvarok - a form of corvée in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Commonwealth) .
A person who is not a native speaker,it is often difficult to understand the exact meaning of idioms. Working through the sleeves is not the same as hitting the buckets, playing pills or sharpening lashes. These phraseological units are quite close, but the second means complete idleness, the third - the occupation of an empty unnecessary business, the fourth - worthless chatter. And the winged expression we are considering implies that a person does the work, albeit badly, somehow, without a light and a desire, sloppy. It should be accurate when using stable phrases.
