If you approach a random person on the street and ask "Who or what can be overseas?" - the answers will be very diverse - from the "overseas guest" to the "caviar overseas, eggplant." We will analyze the most popular answers to the question posed.
Why overseas?
It is quite obvious that the word "overseas" is originally Russian in origin, and even highlighting the root in it is not difficult. Any native speaker, not even the most literate one, just by looking at this word will understand that overseas is something from across the sea, that is, from another country, only ideas about who or what may be overseas will differ. In general, the word "overseas" has three main meanings:
- brought, arrived from overseas, foreign;
- located overseas, foreign, foreign;
- unprecedented, strange.
Who or what might be overseas?
So, as the survey data show, caviar is most often overseas. Eggplant. And this answer, without a doubt, is inspired by the famous feature film "Ivan Vasilievich Changes the Profession".
The next most popular answer is an overseas miracle, in fact - absolutely any curiosity brought from abroad has every right to call an overseas miracle.
The phrase "overseas fish" should be understood as a special kind that is found only in a particular country, and a special way of cooking fish, typical of any national cuisine.
A little lower in the list of the most popular answers to the question "Who or what can be overseas?" it turns out to be an overseas territory, and the rarity of its use is largely due to the fact that this phrase has supplanted the more convenient word “abroad” in use.
In fifth place is the overseas prince, who is also a bridegroom from abroad, but since princes are a single occurrence, the answer is by no means the most popular. And a little lower is an overseas guest, who is surprisingly rarely remembered, but which is so often found in literary works, especially in children's fairy tales.