Consider the phraseology "breathe in the air." We will reveal its meaning today. Let's talk about the origin and give examples.
Origin
The reader must have been at church. And he remembers quite distinctly a sweetish smell, which is saturated with the whole room. That is the smell of incense. And it all started a very long time ago. This smell turned out to be sweet to the priests, and since then many rites of God's temple began to include this resin. Yes, yes, this is a resin of a plant of the same name. In order not to confuse the reader, let's say that the tree is Incense. If you ever sometime gather in Yemen and Oman as a tourist, you will surely stumble upon what is associated with the smell of your native church.
And since the smell of wood tar is firmly connected with the church, not only in the minds of believers, but also in essence, the expression “breathe in the air”, the meaning of which we understand, is not difficult to unravel. Not only bright rituals are performed fanned by the aroma of incense, but also sad ones. For example, those that precede a person’s journey into a better world.
Value
The reader must have languished and thinks: “Well, when will the meaning of the expression“ breathe frankly ”become known ?!” Calm, only calm. All afflicted will gain the goodness of knowing the truth. A little patience. So, the steady phrase “breathe in the air” (the meaning follows) indicates that someone is about to move to a better world, that is, he will die. In this case, the prophecy may not come true, but a person may look pretty bad.
Synonyms
Meaningful analogues are a real help, especially when it comes to such a thing as phraseological units. Some of them are hard to understand the first time. Let’s think about how you can replace the value “breathe in the air”. So:
- to be barely alive;
- feel very bad;
- to be in a deplorable state;
- stand with one foot in the grave;
- days are numbered;
- lying on his deathbed.
All synonyms, as well as phraseological units, say that a person is about to appear before the Creator, but, however, this may be an erroneous judgment, a false idea.
There is in this sense one very remarkable illustration. In the movie "The Godfather: The Second Film", a character is working, whose name is Hyman Roth. He always behaves as if he is standing with one foot in the grave, and he is plotting evil against Michael Corleone. What does this teach? That appearance is deceiving.
Not only people, but also objects
But if the reader thinks that they only say this about hopelessly sick people, then this is only part of the truth. In fact, now they are characterized so too. For example, old cars that are about to order to happily stay or live long. All these expressions are similar in meaning to the phraseological phrase “breathes frankly”.
When the building is in disrepair, for example, a house that has not been completely repaired for several decades: the roof leaks, the paint on the facade peels off, and the steps, if they are wooden, crack and creak under the weight of the residents and their guests.
About such a structure, one can also say that it breathes in the air, and not to sin against the truth.
In other words, the expression of a wide range of applications also means something in an extremely deplorable state or what seems to be such.