Prepare a sleigh in summer (proverb): meaning and examples

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

Always and almost everyone is told about the benefits of pre-preparation for anything. Moreover, it does not matter at all what is at stake, whether it is agricultural work or passing the session. Folk wisdom has a saying in this regard: prepare a sleigh in the summer (proverb). We'll talk about her today.

Meaning of the proverb

Guess what it's about, not very difficult. Prepare the sleigh in the summer: the 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 folk wisdom and prepared somehow? Education in the country has fallen 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, it's weird. Teachers write lectures in advance. Accountants start preparing monthly reports long before they are due. Many people follow the wisdom of "Prepare the sled in the summer." This proverb was not invented in vain. It reflects the universal experience of the people.

How complete is the saying?

It is known that many sayings and phraseological units reach us in a truncated form. The expression we are considering is no exception. In full, it sounds like this: prepare a sleigh in the summer, and a cart in the winter. As you can see, the meaning of the proverb has not changed, although this is by no means always the case.

The proverb will help students and schoolchildren

Proverbs and sayings can be regarded not only as certain instructions for action, but also as something that reflects the self-consciousness of the people, its reservoir of self-irony and self-criticism. Everyone knows that a Russian person is inclined to put everything off until later and do the work at the last moment. The Germans in this sense are a pedantic people. They have no idea how one can prepare for an exam in one night, while for a Russian student this is a regular situation. True, to imitate such behavior in any case is not worth it. All Russian people know that the expression “prepare the sleigh in the summer” (proverb) hides the truth in itself, but few follow it. So we have to repeat it again and again in the hope that at least a drop of German pedantry will appear in the Russian character. Agree, it would not be bad for Russians to become a little German - to prepare for classes, come to work on time, fulfill their obligations, hand over projects on time. However, one can argue with these: then the Russian person would lose his "super ability" to do everything quickly and efficiently.

We need the proverb "prepare the sled in the summer" (continued now we know) as a reminder and an ideal to strive for. To be fair, it must be said that there isindividual representatives of the Russian people who have already brought this ideal to life.