There are many ways to say "very early." The expression "neither light nor dawn" is one of them. Let us examine the meaning of phraseological units by examples.
Time when there is no sun
In the Russian language there are such speech turns that are difficult to understand without a deep knowledge of history. Fortunately, the stable phrase under consideration does not apply to such. It is easy to understand what it means. “Neither light nor dawn”, i.e. there is neither daylight, nor even dawn is visible. The sun has not yet risen above the horizon, it’s dark even though the eye is poked out. It will be easier to explain with examples.
Dad is an avid fisherman, and his son is a companion
Many readers are familiar with this story. It’s rare that a father doesn’t like fishing. After all, just imagine: a person sits on the banks of a river, the grass turns green (unless, of course, we are talking about winter fishing) - beauty. One drawback: you need to get up no light, no dawn, hours at 5 in the morning, maybe earlier. And then a conversation happens between father and son:
- Petya, get up, it's time to fish!
- Dad, what kind of fish, vacation, let me sleep!
“You promised to go fishing with me yesterday,” my father says in an offended tone.
- Dad, well, I didn’t know that it was necessary to wake up neither light nor dawn.
- A wonderful man, and you thought that we would fish for lunch?
Shops and pharmacies
Previously, grocery stores worked sometimes from 7 in the morning, sometimes from 8. Now many people work exclusively from 9 to 17. Food, even the most exquisite, is not worth it for people to get up before 8 in the morning, because you still need to get to work.
The world has changed as much as pharmacies now work from 9, but, however, unlike stores, to 21, i.e. 12 hours. In addition, in each city there is a different number of on-duty pharmacies that operate around the clock. If suddenly the department store will not be open from 7 in the morning - it does not matter, but when the heart catches and medicine is still asleep, this state of affairs can be fatal for a person.
Thus, we see that technical progress is struggling in all its capabilities to ensure that our brother does not get up in a terrible wound and, waking up, stops remembering the phrase "neither light nor dawn."
“Learning is light, and ignorance is a little light and to work”
This simple alteration of the famous expression is directly related to the topic of our conversation. The benefits of education are not very obvious, especially at school. All this seems tedious and useless to anyone. But it is precisely those who interrupted their studies and did not get to the university that get up very early. True, why hide, sometimes even a diploma of higher education does not help to avoid the fate of an eternally sleepy subject. But education at least gives hope that this cup will pass a person, and without it there is almost no chance. He will forever be a worker who owes everything to everyone, and his children will say to their offspring: “Your grandfather once got up a dawn, he had to go to work. Well, to be honest, it went on for years. Therefore, study, son, so as not to repeat his fate. "
But there are jobs and professions that, regardless of the level of education of a person, take away all his energy and time. And he can get up and go to bed, not consistent with the schedule. This is the unenviable fate of all workaholics. But do not feel sorry for them, they, although they live a little, as a rule, but on the other hand, they are happy for them.
Therefore, getting up neither light nor dawn is not always bad. It is important to follow the regimen and get enough sleep. Eternally sleepy, it’s hard to enjoy life.
Of course, the technological age has its drawbacks, but, for example, medieval European peasants worked physically for 12-15 hours, rose before dawn and worked until they fell. Modern people (especially in cities) live much easier and better. They think about such things as “realization”, “calling”, take care of their health and worry, is it good to get up early or bad? But before a person moved from a village to a city, he did not even think about such high matters.