When a person has the ability to independently equip life quality, they say that he has golden hands. We will consider phraseologism today and select synonyms for it.
Midas nothing to do with
A reader familiar with ancient Greek mythology will immediately recall King Midas, who asked Selene, the teacher of Dionysus, the god of wine, for the shelter and caress of the god of wine, the ability to turn everything he touches into gold. Then, of course, the greedy ruler became disappointed in his gift and realized that literally having golden hands was not so wonderful. But coincidence is important here. And yet, the legend has nothing to do with Russian stable expression.
Under the "hands" here refers to skill, certainly economic sense. Apparently, there was always a shortage of personnel in Russia, which is why craftsmen were worth their weight in gold. Perhaps from this comes the phraseology “golden hands”. Even now, when technological progress is more and more specializing in people, that is, everyone is engaged in their own separate field, those who are able to bring comfort to their own homes are highly regarded.
Synonyms
Knowing the meaning of the object of study, you can easily pick up a replacement for him if you wish, but we still can’t get away from the word “master”. So, the list of phraseological units is as follows:
- Master of his craft.
- Handyman.
- Work burns in the hands.
If you need to replace it with one word, then this is even simpler:
- craftsman;
- craftsman;
- master;
- specialist;
- ace;
- dock.
But there is one subtlety that may slip away from the reader if we do not talk about it. Phraseological replacements still retain the same shade of economic activity as the object of study, and when it comes to replacements in one word, here they are already quite universal. For example, “jack of all trades” and “work burns in hands” are more likely to refer to manual labor, while “master of his craft” can be called anyone, from the installer to the programmer. And nouns cited as a synonym for "golden hands" are generally universal to the limit.
Pragmatic shade of phraseology
It must also be said that economic glory was entrenched in the “golden hands”. The latter needs an explanation. Each person works with his hands. But no one would ever think of praising an artist or writer for his hands. Although in this sense there is one very interesting story. Once Marlene Dietrich kissed the hand of Konstantin Paustovsky for writing the story “Telegram”. But this, perhaps, is the only case when the intellectual evaluated precisely that part of the body that he technically creates.
But in most cases, practical skills are appreciated. For example, a man can insert glass himself into a window frame or a woman can knit a sweater. It doesn’t matter that the same man writes a detective bestseller at work, and the woman carries out the most complicated physical experiments.
It is not a matter of folk wisdom. Just apt expressions that we use now appeared long ago, and then the world was much simpler. Therefore, the meaning assigned to phraseologism, without frills, is economic.