Phraseological units - recorded in the language of expression. They fill the speech, make it more diverse.
The meaning of idiom "upside down"
So, more. The idiom "upside down" has several interpretations. What kind?
The first means that some thing or personare upside down. Inverted. You can be, fly, fall or roll over "upside down." The meaning of a phraseological unit can also be interpreted as a “collapse” of something.
And that's not it.Changing the course of events is another meaning of the phraseologism "upside down". That is, when you were planning something, but it suddenly failed. This idiom also means confusion and chaos.
Origin
Взгляд на происхождение этой идиомы у разных researchers is different. Since "upside down" is a phraseological junction, that is, a fixed combination that cannot be understood and imagined without knowing its history, it is necessary to turn to etymology.
In Russia "tormashki" - a colloquial word. It could be heard in the dialects of the inhabitants of modern Ryazan and on the Don.
In those times, this word was called legs. In the Ryazan dialect, the word tormy existed to designate legs, and in the Don dialect people called them "torman".
According to another version, the phraseological unit meant inverted sleds, the brakes of which were called "tormas". This option is in tune with the word "tormashki".
The first origin version is the most popular. “Tormes” and “brakes” are closer to “butts” than “tormas”.
Also at that time, the picture of the world of people is stilldivided "top" and "bottom". "Top" symbolized the sun, air, sky. And in a man - the head. The "bottom" was both water, and earth, and human legs. The man himself felt in the middle: he is above water and earth, but below the sky.
Top associated with something good, great, heavenly. Bottom, on the contrary, showed darkness, poverty. The meaning of a phraseological unit "upside down" is sowing of chaos, disorder.
