Always and almost everyone is told about the benefits of preparing for something beforehand. Moreover, it does not matter what is at stake, be it agricultural work or the delivery of the session. The wisdom of the people has a saying on this subject: prepare the sled in the summer (proverb). We’ll talk about her today.
The meaning of the proverb
It’s not very difficult to guess what this is about. Prepare your sleigh in summer: a proverb says that you need to be fully armed in advance. And this applies to all professions. Imagine what would happen if the teachers at the university did not follow popular wisdom and prepared somehow? Education in the country has slipped to the lowest level! Students would be outraged by the lack of knowledge of their own and the incompetence of the teacher. In other words, this is strange. Teachers write lectures in advance. Accountants begin to prepare monthly reports long before delivery. Many people follow the wisdom of “Prepare a sleigh in summer.” This proverb was not invented in vain. It reflects the universal experience of the people.
How does the utterance sound completely?
It is known that many speeches and idioms reach us in a truncated form. The expression we are considering is no exception. It sounds completely like this: prepare a sled in the summer, and a cart in the winter. As you can see, the meaning of the proverb has not changed, although this does not always happen.
Proverb helps students and schoolchildren
Proverbs and sayings can be considered not only as specific instructions for action, but also as something that reflects the self-consciousness of the people, their reservoir of self-irony and self-criticism. Everyone knows that a Russian person is inclined to put everything off for later and do work at the last moment. The Germans in this sense are pedantic people. They have no idea how to prepare for the exam in one night, but this is a regular situation for a Russian student. True, to imitate such behavior in any case is not worth it. All Russian people know that the expression “prepare a sleigh in the summer” (proverb) in itself conceals the truth, but few follow it. So you have to repeat it again and again in the hope that in the Russian character at least a drop of German pedantry will appear. Agree, it would be nice for Russians to become a bit of Germans - to prepare for classes, to come to work on time, to fulfill their obligations, to deliver projects on time. However, one can argue with these: then the Russian people would lose their "superpower" to do everything quickly and efficiently.
We need the proverb “prepare your sleigh in the summer” (we now know the continuation) as a reminder and ideal to strive for. In fairness, it must be said that there are some representatives of the Russian people who have already put this ideal into practice.