What does the expression "drive the bulldozer" mean?
A fool is a simpleton; to be stunned is to stop thinking with joy.
These two words, in my opinion, are closely related in meaning to each other. Perhaps in the old days there was some kind of simple work, like kicking the bucket. For example, swinging some kind of heavy hammer or load for some kind of work. Perhaps this is where the name of the hammer came from - balda. The word itself conveys the meaning of the rhythmic movement of something heavy, weighty and difficult to move. Ball-da, ball-da, ball-da - resembles the sound of piles being driven in, doesn’t it? But if you swing this object, then the force of the blow is crazy and it’s difficult to hide from it; if it moves, it will blow your mind away. Hence the expression - to be stunned, in other words, to stop thinking, after stunning news.
It is not surprising that Baldoy named his employee Pushkin. A completely harmless worker endowed with remarkable strength, judging by the clicks on his butt, calmly, without straining, outwitted the employer. Like a swinging heavy pendulum, Balda calmly brought the third click to the state of knocking out the mind, i.e. the awesomeness of your employer. If the priest had not teased the worker with his machinations, there would have been no such clicks.
It turns out, drive the bulldozer, this is the kind of work when efforts are made at first, and then it goes on its own, you just need to maintain the amplitude. But it is impossible to stop this work suddenly, abruptly; you can get hit and be stunned.
Apparently there has been no such work for a long time, and the expression has firmly entered into colloquial speech.
In the zone they call the sun a bulldozer. Perhaps, chasing a bulldozer is an expression from thieves' jargon - give a damn. The meaning of the expression is lying on your back, looking at the sun as it moves across the sky - chasing a bulldozer - doing nothing.
The expression "drive a fool" is a euphemism that exists in the Russian language like no other.
The very name Balda means a very stupid person, a blockhead, and it comes from the blockhead-club. It is a wooden club made from a thick rhizome. In some cases it can also mean lazy person idly spending time. So, chasing a bulldozer is an extremely useless or empty activity.
It's clean Russian saying Chasing the bulldozer originated in Rus', during the time of Peter the Great.
Probably the most appropriate meaning of this phrase in modern life is to sit back (that is, do nothing, sit back, take no action).
They also say: Goof off; Kick the goof; Beat the goof.
The interpretation, meaning and meaning of these expressions will be the same or similar, that is, analogous or typical of this expression.
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From the book Anti-Chess. Notes from a villain. Return of the defector by Korchnoi Viktor“HOW TO DRIVE CATTLE...” August 1968. Soviet tanks entered Prague. The legitimate government was overthrown by Moscow in an extremely humiliating, disgusting manner - I hope Soviet historians will tell their people about this. Much is already known from recent publications
Igor Kharichev Chasing the quitter Ivan Loder
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Chasing the quitter Ivan Loder Igor Kharichev
From the book Patriotic War 1812. Unknown and little known facts author Team of authorsChasing a quitter Ivan Loder Igor Kharichev It is quite well known that the concept of “idler” and the phrase “chasing a quitter” appeared thanks to Christian Ivanovich Loder, who was an ardent supporter of treatment with mineral waters in combination with physical
RACE THE PIGEONS
From the book Winged Words author Maksimov Sergey VasilievichRUNNING PIGEONS For others, this work is fun and a prank, for which they are not praised at all, and their parents consider city children to be an indispensable duty and reward them with a beating. For others, not only adults, but even old ones, light fun turns into serious
What does the expression “Drive the bulldozer” mean and where did it come from? and got the best answer
Answer from Lev Zadov[guru]
Balda - 1. head 2. dick 3. drugs 4. deception * drive the fool - masturbate, mess around
Reply from User deleted[newbie]
the same thing as idleness, doing nothing
Reply from User deleted[guru]
i.e., do nothing, and not to say rest, it’s just the way it is, you’re driving the bulldozer!
Reply from Vladimir buhvestov[expert]
To drive a fool is to do nothing, to sit back
Reply from Evgeniy Fedorov[newbie]
Since ancient times, in village forges there were, in addition to horizontal anvils, vertical anvils. Which consisted of a fixed massive part - an anvil. The plane of the anvil on which the product was forged was vertical. The second massive oblong part - the hammer, which was called the bulldozer - was movable, suspended on four chains, and resembled a swing, the swinging part of which maintained a horizontal position. These massive swings, with significant swinging, reached out and hit the anvil or the product that was being forged with its end. The swinging of the hammer, or rather the bulldozer, was done with the help of ropes. To avoid swinging of the hammer (bolt) in the transverse direction, ring guides were installed for the ropes. They said about a man (apprentice) swinging a hammer (buldo) - he drives a hammer.
Therefore, they said the same thing about a stupid person, even if he still had significant strength - he doesn’t know how to do anything anymore, he just needs to drive the bulldozer.
The battering machines that previously existed and were used in the capture of fortresses had a similar design. Where the swinging part, such as a massive tree trunk, was also called a boom.
Sometimes there is a description of a device for driving piles, where the load falling on the pile is also called a bulldozer. Such a load was also lifted with the help of ropes (ropes) and a lot of force was required to lift it.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin called the hero of the fairy tale Balda not for his lack of intelligence, but for his enormous strength - “... with the third click his mind flew out...”.
Therefore, I would not recommend using expressions, and even more so - to play the fool (to play the fool), to kick the fool (to kick the fool), to beat the fool (to beat the fool).
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BALDA and BALDA w. canopy, large, heavy knob; lump, growth, large blond; | lower forest crivulina, thick rhizome, club, club; | large hammer, threshing, sledgehammer, fist, from 8 to 15 lbs. | a heavy wooden mallet, different types; | rammer, hand woman; ...
Drive the bulldozer
Razg. 1. Iron. Sit back. UMK, 50; Bykov, 23; Maksimov, 23. 2. Masturbate. UMK, 50.
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drive the bulldozer- (or kick) see: fool... Dictionary of Russian argot
kick the bulldozer- to drive a bulldozer (or kick) see: bulldozer... Dictionary of Russian argot
drive the bulldozer- 1. Loiter 2. Masturbate Ballerina Lockpick, a tool for opening safes... Dictionary of the criminal and semi-criminal world
RACE THE DOGS- who Idle around, engage in empty business. This means that a person or a group of people (X) is having fun, spending time in aimless fun. Spoken with disapproval. unformed ✦ X dogs are chasing. The nominal part is unism. verb usually in inf. In the role of a storyteller... ... Phrasebook Russian language
Jarg. they say Joking. The same as driving a bulldozer 1. Maksimov, 23 ... Large dictionary of Russian sayings
Jarg. they say Joking. The same as driving a bulldozer 1. Maksimov, 23 ... Large dictionary of Russian sayings
Ivanovna. Simple Joking. iron. About a slow-witted, absent-minded woman. Mokienko 2003, 6. Aspen balda. Simple Disapproved or Bran. Silly, stupid man. SPS, 18; Glukhov 1988, 117; Mokienko 1990, 106, 112; FSS, 9. Give it a damn. Jarg. they say... ... Large dictionary of Russian sayings
Thieves' jargon (it would be more correct to call this phenomenon "argo") is a social dialect (sociolect) that developed among declassed elements of society, as a rule, criminals. It is a system of terms and expressions designed initially... ... Wikipedia
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So let's continue Bullshit to drive the meaning? This expression has several meanings, and we will analyze only the most interesting of them.
Drive the bulldozer- means to idle, to do something easy
Synonym of the word Drive nonsense: to suffer with bullshit, to kick ass, to chill, to smoke bamboo, to go crazy, to kick dicks, to hose.
Example:
Tolyan, it’s good to drive the fool, let’s go to the park already, let’s pick up the chicks.
I thought that at work I would be driving around all day long, but everything turned out exactly the opposite.
I can’t wait to go on vacation, there are a couple of months left, I imagine how I’ll go to the dacha and spend all day swimming, sunbathing, and reading books. In short, I will drive the bulldozer in every possible way.
Synonym of Drive the bulldozer: fap, fuck, pull the pussy.
Origin of the expression "Go crazy"
This phraseological unit has its roots deep in the history of Rus'. At that distant time, metal processing was carried out by blacksmiths who had a whole range of different necessary tools. Among them, the anvil was considered one of the most important, if not the most important. Moreover, they were of different sizes and shapes, adapted for the production of parts of the most bizarre type. In addition, you will probably be surprised, but the anvils were not only horizontal, that is, in the form of a sort of heavy metal table, but also vertical. Similar" device"was made not just on a whim, but to facilitate the process of forging metal.Imagine a thick sheet of iron attached to the wall of a forge. Next to him is a hammer suspended on four chains. This whole structure looked somewhat like a children's swing.
Forging was carried out as follows: a piece of the future part was heated in a forge, and held with tongs, it was placed opposite the hammer. Then the blacksmith's apprentice began to swing this heavy " crap", which gradually gained amplitude, began to hit the part with enormous force. To prevent the hammer from swinging in the transverse direction, it was hung on ring guides.
As you already understood, it was this hammer that was called " idiot", but about the blacksmith's assistant, who pulled the ropes, swinging this hefty " device"they said he was" drives the bulldozer".
Since then, it has been the custom to say " he's a bullshit", about a person (usually physically strong) who does not want to do anything, he just wants to kick / drive the bulldozer.
If we look at how glorious warriors and knights used to take enemy fortresses, we will discover a fair amount of similarity." bullshit"from the forge, with a battering gun. True, it was hung there on a chain big tree sheathed in iron, with a pointed part at the front. However, this does not change the essence. Today, a pile driving device is used, which is built on a similar principle. A huge “ingot” is lifted high above the pile along guides, and then sharply thrown down. Previously, it was lifted with the help of ropes and swear words, but now they use the power of steam, compressed air and electricity. Previously, this part was also called " idiot", showing that some still remember the true meaning of this word.
Remember, you Pushkin, was there such an employee of Balda who had a “grater” with his employer (a greedy priest)? Did you know that they called him Balda, not because he was stupid, but because of his excessive strength. He hired a strong guy who, as payment, would weigh out three clicks (clicks) a year. It’s clear that the clergyman liked this arrangement. However, when the time came for retribution, Balda killed his employer with the third click. "...with the third click my mind flew out..."
Today in polite society it is better not to use such an expression, because you may be misunderstood. Because now its more youthful meaning is in use, which we already mentioned a little higher.
Similar phrases: hit the bulldozer, kick the bulldozer, roll the bulldozer.
