Domingo, Setembro 23, 2007

Mais sobre a língua protuguesa

Agora, explicações de algumas expressões que usamos e nem sempre sabemos de onde se originou.

NAS COXAS
As primeiras telhas do Brasil eram feitas de argila moldada nas coxas dos escravos. Como os escravos variavam de tamanho e porte físicos, as telhas ficavam desiguais. Daí a expressão fazendo nas coxas, ou seja, de qualquer jeito.

VOTO DE MINERVA
Na Mitologia Grega, Orestes, filho de Clitemnestra, foi acusado de tê-la assassinado. No julgamento havia empate entre os jurados, cabendo à deusa Minerva, da Sabedoria, o voto decisivo. O réu foi absolvido, e Voto de Minerva é, portanto, o voto decisivo.

CASA DA MÃE JOANA
Na época do Brasil Império, mais especificamente durante a menoridade de Dom Pedro II, os homens que realmente mandavam no país costumavam se encontrar num prostíbulo do Rio de Janeiro cuja proprietária se chamava Joana. Como, fora dali, esses homens mandavam e desmandavam no país, a expressão casa da mãe Joana ficou conhecida como sinônimo de lugar em que ninguém manda.

CONTO DO VIGÁRIO
Duas igrejas de Ouro Preto receberam, como presente, uma única imagem de determinada santa, e, para decidir qual das duas ficaria com a escultura, os vigários apelaram à decisão de um burrico. Colocaram-no entre as duas paróquias e esperaram o animalzinho caminhar até uma delas. A escolhida pelo quadrúpede ficaria com a santa. E o burrico caminhou direto para uma delas... Só que, mais tarde, descobriram que um dos vigários havia treinado o burrico, e conto do vigário passou a ser sinônimo de falcatrua e malandragem.

A VER NAVIOS
Dom Sebastião, jovem e querido rei de Portugal (sec XVI), desapareceu na batalha de Alcácer-Quibir, no Marrocos. Provavelmente morreu, mas seu corpo nunca foi encontrado. Por isso o povo português se recusava a acreditar na morte do monarca, e era comum que pessoas subissem ao Alto de Santa Catarina, em Lisboa, na esperança de ver o Rei regressando à Pátria. Como ele não regressou, o povo ficava a ver navios.

NÃO ENTENDO PATAVINAS
Os portugueses tinham enorme dificuldade em entender o que falavam os frades italianos patavinos, originários de Pádua, ou Padova. Daí que não entender patavina significa não entender nada.

DOURAR A PÍLULA
Antigamente as farmácias embrulhavam as pílulas amargas em papel dourado para melhorar o aspecto do remedinho. A expressão dourar a pílula significa melhorar a aparência de algo ruim.

SEM EIRA NEM BEIRA
Os telhados de antigamente possuíam eira e beira, detalhes que conferiam status ao dono do imóvel. Possuir eira e beira era sinal de riqueza e de cultura. Estar sem eira nem beira significa que a pessoa é pobre e não tem sustentáculo no raciocínio.

 
 

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