"Prevaricate". The value of idiom consider today. Intentionally deceive, is it good or bad?
Value
If you think about it, then everything in Russianculture is associated with the heart and soul - good. If a person speaks from the heart or from the heart, it means that he speaks sincerely, kindly. If not, you usually hear: "This is not from the heart." And it doesn't matter at all what it is about - a gift or words.
Thus, to "curse the soul" (meaningidiom should be further) - it is to speak or act not according to conscience, insincere, to deceive. In everyday speech, curse the soul means: to tell a lie or to do wrong, as you see fit. To distort the heart lead words or actions that are contrary to their own convictions.
Cinematic example
Lawyers and lawyers are not very fond of the people.It is believed that they have no conscience. Hollywood willingly condones this conviction, making films about people without convictions who earn by appearing in court and defending criminals. True, to the credit of writers and directors, it must be said that almost all films do not just scourge lawyers for nothing, but they contain a certain moral moment.
For example, the 1997 film “Liar, Liar” asjust about a person who is accustomed to a soul mate (the meaning of a idiom is revealed a little higher) professionally. At the beginning of the film, the hero Jim Carrey (Fletcher Reed) is a completely unprincipled man who dreams of climbing the corporate ladder and on the way to his goal doesn’t parse the road too much. He lies all the time. Even your little son. But once Max - the son of Fletcher, made a wish for his birthday so that at least one day the father would not lie. Of course, for a person like F.Reed, this is a catastrophe, but as the lawyer learns to speak “the truth, only the truth and nothing but the truth”, he understands something very important. For example, it is not so good to be uptight (the meaning of a phraseological unit is illustrated by illustrative examples), even for big money. There are higher values besides material wealth.
When a person prevails in everyday life
The answer to the question posed in the title: unfortunately, almost all the time. People lie:
- Houses.
- At work.
- Have friends.
And although a person almost every culture recognizesthe theoretical value of perfect and absolute truth, in practice, he prefers to smooth corners and deceive his neighbor, but not from evil. At home, a person lies to avoid offending those he loves. At work, he is forced to incriminate himself so that he will not be fired or to earn extra points from his superiors. He lies to his friends, as in the first case, because the truth hurts them. The meaning and interpretation of the phrase “curse the soul” makes us think about the paradox: on the one hand, the truth is very good. The truthful person is very much appreciated, it is called fundamental. Honesty is respected by the people. On the other hand, a person who says “the truth, the truth and nothing but the truth” is deprived of his heart. The latter is quite obvious.
Dr. House: "All people are lying." Is it good or bad?
Dr. House is an example of what is perfect.the truth can only be worshiped by a hardened cynic. A brilliant doctor tirelessly scourges the vices of human nature and hides the callousness of his own nature from himself.
Of course, the meaning and interpretation of "curse the soul"(idiom) is pushing to say: "Yes, conscious hypocrisy is bad." But the constant distortion of facts is an integral part of social life. The truth is too bitter to throw it to the people in handfuls. There is a saying “Better bitter truth than a sweet lie,” but in fact people prefer the sweetness of bitterness.
So, curse the soul is bad if:
- A person does this in a courtroom, and the fate of other people depends on his sincerity.
- A person is asked to tell the truth.
- This is done for the sake of promotion and other benefits.
But it is necessary to prevaricate if a person knows that the truth will hurt.
But here we must distinguish pain from narcissism andillusions. If a person knows that, expressing the truth, he will fall into a nerve, then it is necessary to refrain, and if he is sure that he will free a person from illusion, from captivity of narcissism, then it is necessary, without hesitation, to hit the target. The difficulty is that the boundary between the one and the other is blurred, and a person can rarely distinguish one from the other.
The meaning of a phraseological unit is not particularly difficult and mysterious, and the moral conclusions from the expression can be argued endlessly.
